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
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
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.
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Arabic
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
شكرا
matur nuwun
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
piye kabare?
Good Night
تصبح على خير
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
مساء الخير
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
صباح الخير
Sugeng énjing
Please
من فضلك
Not Available
Sorry
آسف
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
وداعا
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
أحبك
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
اعذرني
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Indonesia
Dialect 2
Sudanese
Cirebon
Where They Speak
Sudan
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Levantine
Arekan
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
arabe
javanais
German Name
Arabisch
Javanisch
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Not Available
Ethnicity
Arabs
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Indonesian
Branch
North Arabic
Not Available
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Javanese
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Not Available
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
arab1395
java1253
Linguasphere
12-AAC
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative
Arabic and Javanese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Arabic and Javanese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Arabic and Javanese language. Arabic word for "Hello" is مرحبا or Javanese word for "Thank You" is matur nuwun. Find more of such common Arabic Greetings and Javanese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Arabic vs Javanese Difficulty
The Arabic vs Javanese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Arabic Alphabets and Javanese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Arabic and Javanese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Arabic and Javanese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Arabic is 88 weeks while to learn Javanese time required is 36 weeks.