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
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
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
Somalia
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Africa, Middle East
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Yemen
1.7 Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
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.
- Somali language is one of the best documented Afro-Asiatic languages.
- One of the most widely spoken of the Cushitic languages is the Somali Language.
1.9 Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
Afar and Oromo Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Arabic Language
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
Arabic
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
شكرا
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
تصبح على خير
Habeenka Good
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
galab wanaagsan
3.7 Good Morning
صباح الخير
Subax wanaagsan
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Gabon, Standard Somali
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Sudan
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
Standard Somali
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 million13.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
206.00 million8.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
246.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
af Soomaali
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
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
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Afro-Asiatic 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
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Somali
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Somali 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
Not Available