Countries
Philippines
  
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
Philippines
  
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Commission on the Filipino Language
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Interesting Facts
- Ilocano was originally written with Baybayin syllabary, then gradually it was replaced by Latin alphabet.
- Northwest Luzon is the original Ilocano homeland.
  
- 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
Tagalog, Indonesian and Malaysian Languages
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Ilocano-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Ilokano Braille, Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Kablaaw
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
Agyamanak
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
Kumusta?
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
Naimbag a rabii
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
Naimbag a sardam
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
Naimbag a malem
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
Naimbag a bigat
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
Not available
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
Agpakawanak
  
آسف
  
Bye
Pakada
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
Ayayatenka
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
Maawan-dayawen
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Balangao
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Philippines
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Bontoc
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Philippines
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Not present
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
9.10 million
  
99+
452.00 million
  
4
Native Speakers
9.10 million
  
99+
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
ilokano
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Ilokano, Iloko
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
ilocano
  
arabe
  
German Name
Ilokano-Sprache
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Ilocano people
  
Arabs
  
Origin
18th Century
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Austronesian 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
Modern Ilocano
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ilo
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
ilo
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
ilo
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
ilok1237
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
31-CBA-a
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic