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
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
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
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
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.
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Arabic
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Thank You
شكرا
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
تصبح على خير
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
مساء الخير
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
صباح الخير
早安 (Zǎo ān)
I Love You
أحبك
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
اعذرني
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
Sudan
China, United States of America
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
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French Name
arabe
chinois
German Name
Arabisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
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Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Semitic
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Branch
North Arabic
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Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Standard Chinese
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
arab1395
sini1245
Linguasphere
12-AAC
79-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating
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.