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
Zimbabwe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.11 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
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
1.12 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.13 Speaking Continents
1.14 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.15 Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Not Available
1.16 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.
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
1.17 Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
Kalanga and Nambya Language
1.18 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
3.3 Phonology
3.3.1 How Many Vowels
3.3.2 How Many Consonants
3.5 Scripts
3.6 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Not Available
3.7 Hard to Learn
3.7.1 Language Levels
3.7.2 Time Taken to Learn
4 Greetings
4.1 Hello
4.2 Thank You
4.3 How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
Wakadini zvako?
4.4 Good Night
تصبح على خير
Urare zvakanaka
4.5 Good Evening
4.6 Good Afternoon
4.7 Good Morning
4.8 Please
4.9 Sorry
4.10 Bye
4.11 I Love You
4.12 Excuse Me
5 Dialects
5.1 Dialect 1
5.1.1 Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Zimbabwe
5.1.2 How Many People Speak
5.5 Dialect 2
5.5.1 Where They Speak
5.5.2 How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
5.6 Dialect 3
5.6.1 Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
5.6.2 How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
7.2 Total No. Of Dialects
8 How Many People Speak
8.1 How Many People Speak?
452.00 million25.00 million
0.13
1200
8.3 Speaking Population
8.4 Native Speakers
206.00 million8.30 million
0.13
873
8.5.1 Second Language Speakers
246.00 millionNA
0.01
400
9.1.1 Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
Not Available
9.1.2 Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
9.1.3 French Name
9.1.4 German Name
9.2 Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Not Available
9.3 Ethnicity
10 History
10.1 Origin
10.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Niger-Congo Family
10.2.1 Subgroup
10.2.2 Branch
10.3 Language Forms
10.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Not Available
10.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Not Available
10.3.3 Language Position
10.4.1 Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Not Available
10.5 Scope
11 Code
11.1 ISO 639 1
11.2 ISO 639 2
11.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
11.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
11.3 ISO 639 3
11.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
11.5 Glottocode
11.6 Linguasphere
11.7 Types of Language
11.7.1 Language Type
11.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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11.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available