Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
  
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
  
National Language
China, Guangdong
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Hawaii
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Chinese Language
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
谢谢
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
你好吗?
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
晚安
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
晚上好
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
下午好
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
早上好
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
请
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
遗憾
  
آسف
  
Bye
再见
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
我爱你
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
原谅我
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Dialect 2
Xiguan
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
452.00 million
  
4
Native Speakers
52.00 million
  
21
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
Not Available
  
arabe
  
German Name
Not Available
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Arabs
  
Origin
17th century
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
No data available
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
cant1236
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic