×

Arabic
Arabic

English
English



ADD
Compare
X
Arabic
X
English

Arabic and English

Add ⊕

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
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

2333
0 46
👆🏻

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
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
South Africa

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.
  • Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
  • English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.

Similar To

Amharic and Hebrew
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German Languages

Derived From

-
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2826
18 247
👆🏻

Phonology

How Many Vowels

85
0 32
👆🏻

How Many Consonants

2821
9 60
👆🏻

Scripts

Arabic
Latin

Writing Direction

Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

47
2 12
👆🏻

Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks6 weeks
3 88
👆🏻

Greetings

Hello

مرحبا
Hello

Thank You

شكرا
Thank you

How Are You?

كيف حالك؟
How are you?

Good Night

تصبح على خير
Good Night

Good Evening

مساء الخير
Good Evening

Good Afternoon

مساء الخير
Good Afternoon

Good Morning

صباح الخير
Good Morning

Please

من فضلك
Please

Sorry

آسف
Sorry

Bye

وداعا
Bye

I Love You

أحبك
I love you

Excuse Me

اعذرني
Excuse Me

Dialects

Dialect 1

Maghrebi
American English

Where They Speak

Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
United States of America

How Many People Speak

310,000,000.00225,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
👆🏻

Dialect 2

Sudanese
Hiberno-English

Where They Speak

Sudan
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

17,000,000.004,500,000.00
700 274000000
👆🏻

Dialect 3

Levantine
Welsh English

Where They Speak

Cyprus, Levant
United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

21,000,000.002,500,000.00
2 230000000
👆🏻

Total No. Of Dialects

26188
0 188
👆🏻

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

452.00 million1,200.00 million
0 1200
👆🏻

Speaking Population

4.43 %5.43 %
0 89
👆🏻

Native Speakers

206.00 million400.00 million
0 873
👆🏻

Second Language Speakers

246.00 million400.00 million
0.01 400
👆🏻

Native Name

(al arabiya) العربية
English

Alternative Names

Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
English

French Name

arabe
anglais

German Name

Arabisch
Englisch

Pronunciation

/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/

Ethnicity

Arabs
English people

History

Origin

512 CE
5th Century AD

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Semitic
-

Branch

North Arabic
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English

Standard Forms

Modern Standard Arabic
Standard English

Language Position

253
1 120
👆🏻

Signed Forms

Signed Arabic
Signed English

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ar
en

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ara
eng

ISO 639 2/B

ara
eng

ISO 639 3

ara
eng

ISO 639 6

ara
engs

Glottocode

arab1395
stan1293

Linguasphere

12-AAC
52-ABA

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic

Arabic and English Alphabets

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

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

Arabic and English Speaking population

Arabic and English speaking population is one of the factors based on which Arabic and English languages can be compared. The total count of Arabic and English Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 % whereas the percentage of people speaking English language is 5.43 %. 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 English on Arabic vs English where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Arabic and English Language Codes

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