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
👆🏻
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
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Sudanese
Griko
Where They Speak
Sudan
Italy
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0050,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Levantine
Mariupol
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2625
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
4.43 %0.18 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
206.00 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million13.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
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