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, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
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
North Korea, South Korea
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
The National Institute of the Korean Language
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.
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
1.9 Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
Chinese and Japanese languages
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
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
مرحبا
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
3.2 Thank You
شكرا
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
3.3 How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
3.4 Good Night
تصبح على خير
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
3.5 Good Evening
مساء الخير
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
3.6 Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
3.7 Good Morning
صباح الخير
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
آسف
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
أحبك
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
3.12 Excuse Me
اعذرني
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
South Korea
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA10,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
China, North Korea
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
452.00 million77.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
206.00 million77.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
246.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
한국어 (조선말)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
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
512 CE
Before 1st century
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Koreanic 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
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Korean Sign Language
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-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative