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
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
232
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
Pakistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Pakistan
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
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.
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Derived From
-
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2852
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
810
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2840
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic
Arabic
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
44
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Greetings
Hello
مرحبا
خوش آمديد
Thank You
شكرا
آپ کا شکریہ
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Good Night
تصبح على خير
گڈ نائٹ
Good Evening
مساء الخير
سلام علیکم
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
گڈ آفٹر نون
Good Morning
صباح الخير
گڈ مارننگ
Please
من فضلك
براہ مہربانی
Sorry
آسف
معاف کرنا
Bye
وداعا
الوداع
I Love You
أحبك
مجھے تم سے محبت
Excuse Me
اعذرني
معاف کیجئے گا
Dialects
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
Dakhini
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
India
How Many People Speak
310,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Sudanese
Hyderabadi Urdu
Where They Speak
Sudan
India
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0069,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Levantine
Rekhta
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
South Asia
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.0069,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
263
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million104.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
4.43 %0.99 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
206.00 million61.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million43.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
اُردُو
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Bihari
French Name
arabe
ourdou
German Name
Arabisch
Urdu
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
[ˈʊrd̪u]
Ethnicity
Arabs
Urdu-speaking people
History
Origin
512 CE
12th Century CE
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
North Arabic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Modern Standard Urdu
Language Position
2520
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Signed Urdu
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
ar
ur
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ara
urd
ISO 639 2/B
ara
urd
ISO 639 3
ara
urd
ISO 639 6
ara
urd
Glottocode
arab1395
urdu1245
Linguasphere
12-AAC
59-AAF-q
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional