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
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, 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
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
من فضلك
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
آسف
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
وداعا
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Olonets
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Russki
  
French Name
arabe
  
russe
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Russians
  
Origin
512 CE
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic