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
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
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
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
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.
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
چطور هستید?
Good Night
تصبح على خير
شب بخیر
Good Evening
مساء الخير
عصر بخیر
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Good Morning
صباح الخير
صبح به خیر
I Love You
أحبك
من شما را دوست دارم
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
Western Persian
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Iran, Iraq
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Sudanese
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
Sudan
Afganistan
Dialect 3
Levantine
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
فارسی
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
German Name
Arabisch
Persisch
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Ethnicity
Arabs
Persian people
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
North Arabic
Iranian
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Persian
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Persian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
arab1395
fars1254
Linguasphere
12-AAC
58-AAC-c
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic
Arabic and Persian 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 Persian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Arabic and Persian language. Arabic word for "Hello" is مرحبا or Persian word for "Thank You" is متشکرم. Find more of such common Arabic Greetings and Persian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Arabic vs Persian Difficulty
The Arabic vs Persian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Arabic Alphabets and Persian 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 Persian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Arabic and Persian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Arabic is 88 weeks while to learn Persian time required is 44 weeks.