Countries
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
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
23
4
1
14
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
Indonesia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
East Timor, Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
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.
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
Malay language
Derived From
Not Available
Malay and Dutch Languages
Alphabets
Alphabets in
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Indonesian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Alphabets
28
10
26
8
Phonology
How Many Vowels
8
5
6
3
How Many Consonants
28
18
19
9
Scripts
Arabic
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Not Available
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
4
3
7
6
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks
13
36 weeks
10
Greetings
Hello
مرحبا
Halo
Thank You
شكرا
Terima kasih
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
Apa kabar?
Good Night
تصبح على خير
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
مساء الخير
Malam yang baik
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
Selamat Sore
Good Morning
صباح الخير
Selamat Pagi
Please
من فضلك
mohon Untuk
Sorry
آسف
maaf
Bye
وداعا
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
أحبك
Aku cinta kamu
Excuse Me
اعذرني
Permisi
Dialects
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
Sundanese
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
38,000,000.00
8
Dialect 2
Sudanese
Balinese
Where They Speak
Sudan
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
6
3,300,000.00
17
Dialect 3
Levantine
Minangkabau
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
Indonesia, Malaysia
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
3
6,000,000.00
7
Total No. Of Dialects
26
22
46
30
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
4
163.00 million
11
Speaking Population
4.43 %
6
1.16 %
14
Native Speakers
206.00 million
6
23.00 million
34
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
2
140.00 million
4
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
Bahasa Melayu
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Bahasa Indonesia
French Name
arabe
indonésien
German Name
Arabisch
Bahasa Indonesia
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Not Available
Ethnicity
Arabs
Indonesians
History
Origin
512 CE
7th Century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Indonesian
Branch
North Arabic
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Malay
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Indonesian
Language Position
25
21
56
99+
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
ar
id
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ara
ind
ISO 639 2/B
ara
ind
ISO 639 3
ara
ind
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
arab1395
indo1316
Linguasphere
12-AAC
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative
