Countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
India, No official status
  
National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
India
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
- Bhojpuri was anciently written in Kaithi scripts.
- In Mughal Era, Kaithi script was used in administrative purposes for writing in Bhojpuri language.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Maithili and Magahi
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
प्रणाम (prannam)
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
धन्वाद (dhanvaad)
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
का हाल बा? (kaa haal ba?)
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
राम राम (raam raam)
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
राम राम (raam raam)
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
राम राम (raam raam)
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
राम राम (raam raam)
  
Please
من فضلك
  
मेहरबानी करके (meharbani karke)
  
Sorry
آسف
  
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
  
Bye
وداعا
  
प्रणाम (prannam)
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
हम तोहसे प्यार करेनी (hum tohse pyaar kareni)
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Caribbean Hindustani
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Fiji Hindi
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Tharu Bhojpuri
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
40.00 million
  
31
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
40.00 million
  
24
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
Not Available
  
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
भोजपुरी (bʰojpurī)
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Bajpuri, Bhojapuri, Bhozpuri, Bihari, Deswali, Khotla, Piscimas
  
French Name
arabe
  
bhojpuri
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Bhojpuri
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
/boʊdʒˈpʊəri/
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Not Available
  
Origin
512 CE
  
19th Century
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Bhojpuri
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
No data Available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
bho
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
bho
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
bho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
bhoj1246
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
59-AAF-sa
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available