Countries
West Java
  
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
Indonesia
  
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
- The Sundanese language is second most widely spoken regional language in Indonesia.
  
- 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
Madurese and Malay Languages
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Sundanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
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Alphabets
Not Available
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin, Sundanese
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Halo
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
Nuhun
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
Kumaha kabarna?
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
Wilujeng kulem
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
Wilujeng wengi
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
Wilujeng siang
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
Wilujeng énjing
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
Mangga
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
Hapunten
  
آسف
  
Bye
Wilujeng angkat
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
Abdi bogoh ka anjeun
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
Punten
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Western dialect
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Banten
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Dialect 2
Northern dialect
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Bogor
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Priangan dialect
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Bandung
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
  
32
452.00 million
  
4
Native Speakers
38.00 million
  
26
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
Not Available
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Priangan, Sunda
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
soundanais
  
arabe
  
German Name
Sundanesisch
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Sundanese, Bantenese, Cirebonese, Badui
  
Arabs
  
Origin
5th century AD
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Indonesian
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Sundanese
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
su
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sun
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
sun
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
sun
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sund1251
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic