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, Nepal
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
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
Hindi
Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Arabic
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
مرحبا
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
شكرا
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
تصبح على خير
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
مساء الخير
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
Good afternoon
Good Morning
صباح الخير
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Sorry
آسف
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
وداعا
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
أحبك
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
اعذرني
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
Doteli
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Sudanese
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Sudan
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Levantine
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
arabe
népalais
German Name
Arabisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Not Available
Ethnicity
Arabs
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
North Arabic
Indic
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Nepali
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Signed Nepali
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
arab1395
nepa1254
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative
Arabic and Nepali 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 Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Arabic and Nepali language. Arabic word for "Hello" is مرحبا or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Arabic Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Arabic vs Nepali Difficulty
The Arabic vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Arabic Alphabets and Nepali 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 Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Arabic and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Arabic is 88 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.
