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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
Cyprus, European Union, Greece

Total No. Of Countries

233
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
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine

Regulated By

Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)

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.
  • Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
  • The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.

Similar To

Amharic and Hebrew
Armenian

Derived From

-
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2824
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

87
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2817
9 60
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Scripts

Arabic
Arabic, Latin

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

46
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

مرحبا
γεια σας (geia sas)

Thank You

شكرا
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)

How Are You?

كيف حالك؟
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)

Good Night

تصبح على خير
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)

Good Evening

مساء الخير
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)

Good Afternoon

مساء الخير
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)

Good Morning

صباح الخير
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)

Please

من فضلك
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)

Sorry

آسف
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)

Bye

وداعا
αντίο (antío)

I Love You

أحبك
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)

Excuse Me

اعذرني
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Maghrebi
Cappadocian Greek

Where They Speak

Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Greece

How Many People Speak

310,000,000.002,800.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Sudanese
Griko

Where They Speak

Sudan
Italy

How Many People Speak

17,000,000.0050,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Levantine
Mariupol

Where They Speak

Cyprus, Levant
Ukraine

How Many People Speak

21,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2625
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

452.00 million13.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

4.43 %0.18 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

206.00 million13.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

246.00 million13.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

(al arabiya) العربية
ελληνικά

Alternative Names

Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic

French Name

arabe
grec moderne (après 1453)

German Name

Arabisch
Neugriechisch

Pronunciation

/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
[eliniˈka]

Ethnicity

Arabs
Greeks or Hellenes

History

Origin

512 CE
1500 BC

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Semitic
Hellenic

Branch

North Arabic
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek

Standard Forms

Modern Standard Arabic
Modern Greek

Language Position

2574
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Arabic
Greek Sign Language

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ar
el

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ara
ell

ISO 639 2/B

ara
gre

ISO 639 3

ara
ell

ISO 639 6

ara
ells

Glottocode

arab1395
gree1276

Linguasphere

12-AAC
56-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

Arabic and Greek Alphabets

Arabic and Greek Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Arabic and Greek. In Arabic Alphabets there are 28 letters while in Greek Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Arabic and Greek languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Arabic and Greek 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 Greek greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Arabic and Greek are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Arabic and Greek Speaking population

Arabic and Greek speaking population is one of the factors based on which Arabic and Greek languages can be compared. The total count of Arabic and Greek Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Greek language is 0.18 %. 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 Greek on Arabic vs Greek where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Arabic and Greek Language Codes

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