1 Countries
1.1 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
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 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
China, Taiwan
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
1.8 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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
1.9 Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Arabic
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
مساء الخير
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Sudan
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
21,000,000.0060,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
452.00 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
206.00 million873.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
246.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
中文 (zhōngwén)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
North Arabic
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Standard Chinese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating