Countries
Burkina Faso
  
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
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
  
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
Not Available
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Interesting Facts
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
  
- 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
Dagbani Language
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Kia ora
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
Laafi bala
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
Laafi beme ?
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
Ne y yungo
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
ne y zabre
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
Kia ora
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
Ne y yibeogo
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
gafare
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
gafare
  
آسف
  
Bye
Wend na kon-d nindaare
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
Y gafare
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Ouapadoupou
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Dialect 2
Saremde
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Taolende
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
7.60 million
  
99+
452.00 million
  
4
Native Speakers
7.60 million
  
99+
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
Mosse
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
moré
  
arabe
  
German Name
Mossi-Sprache
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Mossi
  
Arabs
  
Origin
Not available
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Gur (Voltaic)
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Mossi
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
No data Available
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mos
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
mos
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
mos
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
moss1236
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Mossi and Arabic Speaking population
Mossi and Arabic speaking population is one of the factors based on which Mossi and Arabic languages can be compared. The total count of Mossi and Arabic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Mossi language is 0.11 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Mossi and Arabic on Mossi vs Arabic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Mossi and Arabic Language Codes
Mossi and Arabic language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Mossi and Arabic Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.