About Arabic Language | Arabic | Alphabets in Arabic

Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 4 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

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

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council

Interesting Facts

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

Amharic and Hebrew

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 10 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 5 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 18 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Arabic

Writing Direction

Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 3 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks

Rank: 19 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

مرحبا

Thank You

شكرا

How Are You?

كيف حالك؟

Good Night

تصبح على خير

Good Evening

مساء الخير

Good Afternoon

مساء الخير

Good Morning

صباح الخير

Please

من فضلك

Sorry

آسف

Bye

وداعا

I Love You

أحبك

Excuse Me

اعذرني

Dialects

Dialect 1

Maghrebi

Where They Speak

Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia

How Many People Speak

310,000,000.00

Rank: 2 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Sudanese

Where They Speak

Sudan

How Many People Speak

17,000,000.00

Rank: 29 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Levantine

Where They Speak

Cyprus, Levant

How Many People Speak

21,000,000.00

Rank: 23 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 22 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

452.00 million

Rank: 4 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

4.43 %

Rank: 6 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

206.00 million

Rank: 6 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

246.00 million

Rank: 2 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

(al arabiya) العربية

Alternative Names

Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic

French Name

arabe

German Name

Arabisch

Pronunciation

/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/

Ethnicity

Arabs

History

Origin

512 CE

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family

Subgroup

Semitic

Branch

North Arabic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Modern Standard Arabic

Language Position

Rank: 23 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Signed Arabic

Scope

Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ara

ISO 639 2/B

ara

ISO 639 3

ara

ISO 639 6

ara

Glottocode

arab1395

Linguasphere

12-AAC

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic

Know Alphabets in Arabic

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Arabic Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Arabic Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Arabic. Arabic phonology gives Arabic vowels and Arabic consonants. There are 8 vowels and 28 consonants in Arabic language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Arabic is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Arabic language is given in detail in this section.

All Arabic countries

Want to explore all Arabic countries? About Arabic language serves you with all Arabic Speaking Countries. Countries that use Arabic as official language are called as Arabic countries.

Countries that use Arabic as their National Language are: 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 indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Arabic as second language are: Arabic is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Arabic greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Arabic Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Arabic language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Arabic language.Learn Arabic greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: مرحبا
Thank you: شكرا
Good Morning: صباح الخير
Good Evening: مساء الخير
Good Afternoon: مساء الخير

All Arabic Language Codes

Get to know all Arabic language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Arabic Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.