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
  
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
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
  
Turkey
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Turkish Language Association
  
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.
  
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Azerbaijani Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
Merhaba
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
teşekkür ederim
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
Nasılsın?
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
İyi Geceler
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
İyi Akşamlar
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
Tünaydın
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
günaydın
  
Please
من فضلك
  
lütfen
  
Sorry
آسف
  
üzgünüm
  
Bye
وداعا
  
Hoşçakal
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
Seni seviyorum
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
Afedersiniz
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
26,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Crimean Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Gagauz
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
75.00 million
  
23
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
60.00 million
  
20
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Türkçe
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
French Name
arabe
  
turc
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Türkisch
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Turkish
  
Origin
512 CE
  
c. 1350
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Turkic
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Turkish Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
tr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
tur
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
tur
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
tur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
nucl1301
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Synthetic
  
Arabic and Turkish 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 Turkish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Arabic and Turkish language. Arabic word for "Hello" is مرحبا or Turkish word for "Thank You" is teşekkür ederim. Find more of such common Arabic Greetings and Turkish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Arabic vs Turkish Difficulty
The Arabic vs Turkish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Arabic Alphabets and Turkish 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 Turkish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Arabic and Turkish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Arabic is 88 weeks while to learn Turkish time required is 44 weeks.