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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
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
523
Bhojpuri
0 46
1.3 National Language
China, Taiwan
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
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
1.8 Interesting Facts
  • Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
  • In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  • 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
Not Available
Amharic and Hebrew
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2628
Irish
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
248
Hebrew
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2328
German
9 60
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
64
Bengali
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks88 weeks
Cebuano
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
مرحبا
3.2 Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
شكرا
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
كيف حالك؟
3.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
تصبح على خير
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
مساء الخير
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
مساء الخير
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
صباح الخير
3.8 Please
请 (Qǐng)
من فضلك
3.9 Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
آسف
3.10 Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
وداعا
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
أحبك
3.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
اعذرني
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Mandarin
Maghrebi
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00NA
Macedonian
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Wu
Sudanese
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Sudan
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.0017,000,000.00
Dzongkha
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Yue
Levantine
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Cyprus, Levant
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.0021,000,000.00
Romanian
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
1026
Sanskrit
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million452.00 million
Abkhaz
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
16.00 %4.43 %
Xhosa
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million206.00 million
Abkhaz
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 million246.00 million
Finnish
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
(al arabiya) العربية
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
5.3.4 French Name
chinois
arabe
5.3.5 German Name
Chinesisch
Arabisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
5.5 Ethnicity
Han
Arabs
6 History
6.1 Origin
1250 BC
512 CE
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Semitic
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 Chinese
Modern Standard Arabic
6.3.3 Language Position
125
Persian
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed Arabic
6.4 Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
zh
ar
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
zho
ara
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
chi
ara
7.3 ISO 639 3
zho
ara
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
sini1245
arab1395
7.6 Linguasphere
79-AAA
12-AAC
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic

Chinese vs Arabic Speaking Countries

There are plenty of languages spoken around the world. Every country has its own official language. Compare Chinese vs Arabic speaking countries, so that you will have total count of countries that speak Chinese or Arabic language.

  • Chinese is spoken as a national language in: China, Taiwan.
  • Arabic is spoken as a national language in: Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen.

You will also get to know the continents where Chinese and Arabic speaking countries lie. Based on the number of people that speak these languages, the position of Chinese language is 1 and position of Arabic language is 25. Find all the information about these languages on Chinese and Arabic.

Chinese and Arabic Language History

Comparison of Chinese vs Arabic language history gives us differences between origin of Chinese and Arabic language. History of Chinese language states that this language originated in 1250 BC whereas history of Arabic language states that this language originated in 512 CE. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Chinese and Arabic Language History.

Chinese and Arabic 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 Chinese and Arabic greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Arabic language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Arabic word for "Thank You" is شكرا. Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Arabic Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Chinese vs Arabic Difficulty

The Chinese vs Arabic difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese Alphabets and Arabic 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 Chinese and Arabic are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Arabic, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Arabic time required is 88 weeks.