1 Countries
1.3 Countries
Ethiopia, Kenya
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
1.4 Total No. Of Countries
1.5 National Language
Ethiopia
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
1.6 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Speaking Continents
1.8 Minority Language
Somalia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.10 Regulated By
Not Available
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
1.11 Interesting Facts
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
- 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.
1.12 Similar To
Somali Language
Amharic and Hebrew
1.13 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
3.3 Phonology
3.3.1 How Many Vowels
3.3.3 How Many Consonants
3.8 Scripts
3.9 Writing Direction
Not Available
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
3.10 Hard to Learn
3.10.1 Language Levels
5.1.3 Time Taken to Learn
6 Greetings
6.1 Hello
6.2 Thank You
6.3 How Are You?
Attam jirta/jirtu?
كيف حالك؟
6.4 Good Night
Nagayattii buli
تصبح على خير
6.5 Good Evening
6.6 Good Afternoon
Attam oolte / ooltan
مساء الخير
6.7 Good Morning
Attam bulte/bultan
صباح الخير
6.8 Please
6.9 Sorry
6.10 Bye
6.11 I Love You
6.12 Excuse Me
7 Dialects
7.1 Dialect 1
7.1.1 Where They Speak
Ethiopia, Kenya
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
7.1.2 How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
7.3 Dialect 2
7.3.1 Where They Speak
7.3.2 How Many People Speak
66,000.0017,000,000.00
700
80000000
7.8 Dialect 3
7.8.1 Where They Speak
7.8.2 How Many People Speak
13,000.0021,000,000.00
1400
96000000
8.2 Total No. Of Dialects
9 How Many People Speak
9.1 How Many People Speak?
25.00 million452.00 million
0.13
1200
11.2 Speaking Population
11.3 Native Speakers
24.00 million206.00 million
0.13
873
12.4.3 Second Language Speakers
NA246.00 million
0.01
400
13.7.4 Native Name
Afaan Oromo
(al arabiya) العربية
13.7.5 Alternative Names
Afaan Oromoo
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
13.7.6 French Name
13.7.7 German Name
13.8 Pronunciation
Not Available
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
13.9 Ethnicity
14 History
14.1 Origin
14.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
14.2.1 Subgroup
14.2.2 Branch
Not Available
North Arabic
14.3 Language Forms
14.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
14.3.2 Standard Forms
Afaan Oromo
Modern Standard Arabic
14.3.3 Language Position
14.4.3 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Arabic
14.5 Scope
Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
15 Code
15.1 ISO 639 1
15.2 ISO 639 2
15.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
15.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
15.3 ISO 639 3
15.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
15.5 Glottocode
15.6 Linguasphere
15.7 Types of Language
15.7.1 Language Type
15.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
15.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic