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
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
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Arabic
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
outside mainland China
Dialect 2
Sudanese
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Sudan
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Levantine
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
arabe
Not Available
German Name
Arabisch
Not Available
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Not Available
Ethnicity
Arabs
Not Available
Origin
512 CE
17th century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Not Available
Branch
North Arabic
Not Available
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Not Available
Scope
Macrolanguage
Not Available
ISO 639 1
ar
No data available
ISO 639 2/T
ara
Not Available
ISO 639 2/B
ara
Not Available
ISO 639 3
ara
No data available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
arab1395
cant1236
Linguasphere
12-AAC
No data available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available
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.