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
Hong Kong, Macau
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, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hawaii
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
Chinese Language
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Arabic
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
你好吗？
Good Night
تصبح على خير
晚安
Good Evening
مساء الخير
晚上好
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
下午好
Good Morning
صباح الخير
早上好
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
outside mainland China
Dialect 2
Sudanese
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Sudan
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Levantine
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
arabe
Not Available
German Name
Arabisch
Not Available
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Not Available
Ethnicity
Arabs
Not Available
Origin
512 CE
17th century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Not Available
Branch
North Arabic
Not Available
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Not Available
Scope
Macrolanguage
Not Available
ISO 639 1
ar
No data available
ISO 639 2/T
ara
Not Available
ISO 639 2/B
ara
Not Available
ISO 639 3
ara
No data available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
arab1395
cant1236
Linguasphere
12-AAC
No data available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available
Arabic and Cantonese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Arabic and Cantonese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Arabic and Cantonese language. Arabic word for "Hello" is مرحبا or Cantonese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢. Find more of such common Arabic Greetings and Cantonese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Arabic vs Cantonese Difficulty
The Arabic vs Cantonese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Arabic Alphabets and Cantonese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Arabic and Cantonese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Arabic and Cantonese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Arabic is 88 weeks while to learn Cantonese time required is 88 weeks.