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Arabic
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Countries

Countries

Hong Kong, Macau
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

Total No. Of Countries

223
0 46
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National Language

China, Guangdong
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Africa, Asia

Minority Language

Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council

Interesting Facts

  • 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.
  • 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.

Similar To

Chinese Language
Amharic and Hebrew

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2828
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

88
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2028
9 60
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Scripts

Chinese Characters and derivatives
Arabic

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

104
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

您好
مرحبا

Thank You

谢谢
شكرا

How Are You?

你好吗?
كيف حالك؟

Good Night

晚安
تصبح على خير

Good Evening

晚上好
مساء الخير

Good Afternoon

下午好
مساء الخير

Good Morning

早上好
صباح الخير

Please

من فضلك

Sorry

遗憾
آسف

Bye

再见
وداعا

I Love You

我爱你
أحبك

Excuse Me

原谅我
اعذرني

Dialects

Dialect 1

Guangzhou
Maghrebi

Where They Speak

outside mainland China
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia

How Many People Speak

71,000,000.00310,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Xiguan
Sudanese

Where They Speak

Hong Kong
Sudan

How Many People Speak

71,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Hong Kong
Levantine

Where They Speak

Hong Kong
Cyprus, Levant

How Many People Speak

70,000,000.0021,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

326
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

60.00 million452.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

16.00 %4.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

52.00 million206.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

71.00 million246.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Kwang Tung Wa
(al arabiya) العربية

Alternative Names

Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic

French Name

cantonais
arabe

German Name

Kantonesisch
Arabisch

Pronunciation

[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/

Ethnicity

Han Chinese
Arabs

History

Origin

17th century
512 CE

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family

Subgroup

-
Semitic

Branch

-
North Arabic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Cantonese
Modern Standard Arabic

Language Position

125
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Cantonese
Signed Arabic

Scope

-
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

No data available
ar

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

yue
ara

ISO 639 2/B

yue
ara

ISO 639 3

No data available
ara

ISO 639 6

yue
ara

Glottocode

cant1236
arab1395

Linguasphere

No data available
12-AAC

Types of Language

Language Type

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Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Fusional, Synthetic

Cantonese and Arabic Alphabets

Cantonese and Arabic Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Cantonese and Arabic. In Cantonese Alphabets there are 28 letters while in Arabic Alphabets there are 28 letters. To learn Cantonese and Arabic languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Cantonese and Arabic languages. The Cantonese phonology consist Cantonese vowels and Cantonese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Cantonese greetings vs Arabic greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Cantonese and Arabic are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Cantonese and Arabic Speaking population

Cantonese and Arabic speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Arabic languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Arabic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 %. 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 Cantonese and Arabic on Cantonese vs Arabic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Cantonese and Arabic Language Codes

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