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
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
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, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin 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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Arabic
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Thank You
شكرا
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
تصبح على خير
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
مساء الخير
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
صباح الخير
早安 (Zǎo ān)
I Love You
أحبك
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
اعذرني
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
Sudan
China, United States of America
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
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French Name
arabe
chinois
German Name
Arabisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
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Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Semitic
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Branch
North Arabic
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Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Standard Chinese
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
arab1395
sini1245
Linguasphere
12-AAC
79-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating
Arabic and Chinese 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 Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Arabic and Chinese language. Arabic word for "Hello" is مرحبا or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Arabic Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Arabic vs Chinese Difficulty
The Arabic vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Arabic Alphabets and Chinese 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 Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Arabic and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Arabic is 88 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.