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Countries

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
Hong Kong, Macau

Total No. Of Countries

232
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
China, Guangdong

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia
Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Hawaii

Regulated By

Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division

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.
  • Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
  • Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.

Similar To

Amharic and Hebrew
Chinese Language

Derived From

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-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2828
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

88
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2820
9 60
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Scripts

Arabic
Chinese Characters and derivatives

Writing Direction

Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

410
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

مرحبا
您好

Thank You

شكرا
谢谢

How Are You?

كيف حالك؟
你好吗?

Good Night

تصبح على خير
晚安

Good Evening

مساء الخير
晚上好

Good Afternoon

مساء الخير
下午好

Good Morning

صباح الخير
早上好

Please

من فضلك

Sorry

آسف
遗憾

Bye

وداعا
再见

I Love You

أحبك
我爱你

Excuse Me

اعذرني
原谅我

Dialects

Dialect 1

Maghrebi
Guangzhou

Where They Speak

Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
outside mainland China

How Many People Speak

310,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Sudanese
Xiguan

Where They Speak

Sudan
Hong Kong

How Many People Speak

17,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Levantine
Hong Kong

Where They Speak

Cyprus, Levant
Hong Kong

How Many People Speak

21,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

263
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

452.00 million60.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

4.43 %16.00 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

206.00 million52.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

246.00 million71.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

(al arabiya) العربية
Kwang Tung Wa

Alternative Names

Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese

French Name

arabe
cantonais

German Name

Arabisch
Kantonesisch

Pronunciation

/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]

Ethnicity

Arabs
Han Chinese

History

Origin

512 CE
17th century

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

Semitic
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Branch

North Arabic
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Modern Standard Arabic
Standard Cantonese

Language Position

251
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Arabic
Signed Cantonese

Scope

Macrolanguage
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Code

ISO 639 1

ar
No data available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ara
yue

ISO 639 2/B

ara
yue

ISO 639 3

ara
No data available

ISO 639 6

ara
yue

Glottocode

arab1395
cant1236

Linguasphere

12-AAC
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
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Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
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Arabic and Cantonese Alphabets

Arabic and Cantonese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Arabic and Cantonese. In Arabic Alphabets there are 28 letters while in Cantonese Alphabets there are 28 letters. To learn Arabic and Cantonese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Arabic and Cantonese languages. The Arabic phonology consist Arabic vowels and Arabic consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Arabic greetings vs Cantonese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Arabic and Cantonese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Arabic and Cantonese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Arabic and Cantonese dialects. Various dialects of Arabic and Cantonese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Arabic are spoken in different Arabic Speaking Countries whereas Cantonese Dialects are spoken in different Cantonese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Arabic vs Cantonese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Arabic dialects include: Maghrebi, Sudanese. Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou , Xiguan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Arabic and Cantonese Speaking population

Arabic and Cantonese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Arabic and Cantonese languages can be compared. The total count of Arabic and Cantonese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 %. 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 Arabic and Cantonese on Arabic vs Cantonese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Arabic and Cantonese Language Codes

Arabic and Cantonese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Arabic and Cantonese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.