1 Countries
1.1 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
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 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
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
1.8 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.
1.9 Similar To
Chinese Language
Amharic and Hebrew
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
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
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Arabic
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Right-To-Left, 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
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
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
outside mainland China
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA17,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA21,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
60.00 million452.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
52.00 million206.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA246.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
(al arabiya) العربية
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
North Arabic
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Modern Standard Arabic
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Arabic
6.4 Scope
Not Available
Macrolanguage
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
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic