Arabic and Greek

Arabic

Greek

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

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

Not Available

Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

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Alphabets

Phonology

How Many Vowels

How Many Consonants

Scripts

Arabic

Arabic, Latin

Writing Direction

Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks

44 weeks

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

Not Available

2,800.00

99+

Dialect 2

Sudanese

Griko

Where They Speak

Sudan

Italy

How Many People Speak

17,000,000.00

50,000.00

Dialect 3

Levantine

Mariupol

Where They Speak

Cyprus, Levant

Ukraine

How Many People Speak

21,000,000.00

Not Available

Total No. Of Dialects

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

452.00 million

13.00 million

99+

Speaking Population

4.43 %

0.18 %

99+

Native Speakers

206.00 million

13.00 million

99+

Second Language Speakers

246.00 million

Not Available

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

Not Available

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

99+

Signed Forms

Signed Arabic

Greek Sign Language

Scope

Macrolanguage

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ara

ell

ISO 639 2/B

ara

gre

ISO 639 3

ara

ell

ISO 639 6

Not Available

ells

Glottocode

arab1395

gree1276

Linguasphere

12-AAC

56-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic

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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.

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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.