Countries
Wales
  
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
Wales
  
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
Europe
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Argentina, United Kingdom
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Welsh Language Commissioner
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
- Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
  
- 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
English Language
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
British Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Helô
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
Diolch
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
Sut ydych chi?
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
Nos da
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
Noswaith dda
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
P'nawn da
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
Bore da
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
os gwelwch yn dda
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
Mae'n ddrwg gennym
  
آسف
  
Bye
Hwyl
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
Dw i'n dy garu di
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
Esgusodwch fi
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Patagonian Welsh
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Argentina
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Y Wyndodeg
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Gwynedd
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Y Bowyseg
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Powys
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million
  
99+
452.00 million
  
4
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.40 million
  
99+
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Cymraeg
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
gallois
  
arabe
  
German Name
Kymrisch
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Welsh people
  
Arabs
  
Origin
9th Century
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Celtic
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Brythonic
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Welsh
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
cy
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
cym
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
wel
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
cym
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
wels1247
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
50-ABA
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Historical
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic