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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
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan

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
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia
Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Regulated By

Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan

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.
  • In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
  • Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.

Similar To

Amharic and Hebrew
Pashto and Balochi Languages

Derived From

-
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2832
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

86
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2823
9 60
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Scripts

Arabic
Arabic

Writing Direction

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

Thank You

شكرا
متشکرم

How Are You?

كيف حالك؟
چطور هستید?

Good Night

تصبح على خير
شب بخیر

Good Evening

مساء الخير
عصر بخیر

Good Afternoon

مساء الخير
بعد از ظهر بخیر

Good Morning

صباح الخير
صبح به خیر

Please

من فضلك
لطفا

Sorry

آسف
متاسف

Bye

وداعا
خدا حافظ

I Love You

أحبك
من شما را دوست دارم

Excuse Me

اعذرني
ببخشيد!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Maghrebi
Western Persian

Where They Speak

Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Iran, Iraq

How Many People Speak

310,000,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Sudanese
Dari Persian

Where They Speak

Sudan
Afganistan

How Many People Speak

17,000,000.0012,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Levantine
Tajik Persian

Where They Speak

Cyprus, Levant
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

How Many People Speak

21,000,000.007,900,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2612
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

452.00 million65.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

4.43 %0.99 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

206.00 million65.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

246.00 million110.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

(al arabiya) العربية
فارسی

Alternative Names

Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian

French Name

arabe
persan

German Name

Arabisch
Persisch

Pronunciation

/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
[fɒːɾˈsiː]

Ethnicity

Arabs
Persian people

History

Origin

512 CE
1500 BC

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Semitic
Indo-Iranian

Branch

North Arabic
Iranian

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian

Standard Forms

Modern Standard Arabic
Persian

Language Position

2523
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Arabic
Persian Sign Language

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ar
fa

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ara
fas

ISO 639 2/B

ara
per

ISO 639 3

ara
pes

ISO 639 6

ara
pers

Glottocode

arab1395
fars1254

Linguasphere

12-AAC
58-AAC-c

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic

Arabic and Persian Alphabets

Arabic and Persian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Arabic and Persian. In Arabic Alphabets there are 28 letters while in Persian Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Arabic and Persian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Arabic and Persian 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 Persian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Arabic and Persian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Arabic and Persian Speaking population

Arabic and Persian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Arabic and Persian languages can be compared. The total count of Arabic and Persian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 %. 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 Persian on Arabic vs Persian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Arabic and Persian Language Codes

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