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1 Countries
1.1 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
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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23
Rank: 4 (Overall)
5
Rank: 10 (Overall)
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1.3 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, Taiwan
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
1.8 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.
  • Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
  • In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
1.9 Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
About Tamil Lan..
28
Rank: 10 (Overall)
26
Rank: 8 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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8
Rank: 5 (Overall)
24
Rank: 19 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
About Hmong Lan..
28
Rank: 18 (Overall)
23
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Arabic
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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4
Rank: 3 (Overall)
6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
About Chinese L..
88 weeks
Rank: 13 (Overall)
88 weeks
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
مرحبا
您好 (Nín hǎo)
3.2 Thank You
شكرا
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
3.3 How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
تصبح على خير
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
3.5 Good Evening
مساء الخير
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
صباح الخير
早安 (Zǎo ān)
3.8 Please
من فضلك
请 (Qǐng)
3.9 Sorry
آسف
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
3.10 Bye
وداعا
再见 (Zàijiàn)
3.11 I Love You
أحبك
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
اعذرني
劳驾 (Láojià)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Maghrebi
Mandarin
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
960,000,000.00
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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4.2 Dialect 2
Sudanese
Wu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Sudan
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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17,000,000.00
Rank: 6 (Overall)
80,000,000.00
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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4.3 Dialect 3
Levantine
Yue
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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21,000,000.00
Rank: 3 (Overall)
60,000,000.00
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
About English L..
26
Rank: 22 (Overall)
10
Rank: 10 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
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452.00 million
Rank: 4 (Overall)
1,051.00 million
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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4.43 %
Rank: 6 (Overall)
16.00 %
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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5.3 Native Speakers
About Chinese L..
206.00 million
Rank: 6 (Overall)
873.00 million
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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246.00 million
Rank: 2 (Overall)
178.00 million
Rank: 3 (Overall)
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5.3.2 Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
中文 (zhōngwén)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
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5.3.4 French Name
arabe
chinois
5.3.5 German Name
Arabisch
Chinesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
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5.5 Ethnicity
Arabs
Han
6 History
6.1 Origin
512 CE
1250 BC
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Semitic
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6.2.2 Branch
North Arabic
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Standard Chinese
6.3.3 Language Position
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25
Rank: 21 (Overall)
1
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
6.4 Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
ar
zh
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
ara
zho
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
ara
chi
7.3 ISO 639 3
ara
zho
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
arab1395
sini1245
7.6 Linguasphere
12-AAC
79-AAA
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating

Arabic and Chinese Alphabets

Arabic and Chinese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Arabic and Chinese. In Arabic Alphabets there are 28 letters while in Chinese Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Arabic and Chinese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Arabic and Chinese 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 Chinese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Arabic and Chinese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Arabic and Chinese 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 Chinese dialects. Various dialects of Arabic and Chinese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Arabic are spoken in different Arabic Speaking Countries whereas Chinese Dialects are spoken in different Chinese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Arabic vs Chinese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Arabic dialects include: Maghrebi, Sudanese. Chinese dialects include: Mandarin , Wu. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Arabic and Chinese Speaking population

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

Arabic and Chinese Language Codes

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

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