Countries
Philippines
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
National Language
Philippines
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
Philippines
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Interesting Facts
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
- 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
Hiligaynon Language
Amharic and Hebrew
Derived From
Island of Cebu
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Not Available
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
How Are You?
Kumusta man ka?
كيف حالك؟
Good Night
Maayong Gabii
تصبح على خير
Good Evening
Maayong Gabii
مساء الخير
Good Afternoon
Maayong Hapon
مساء الخير
Good Morning
Maayong Buntag
صباح الخير
I Love You
Gihigugma ko ikaw
أحبك
Excuse Me
Ekskyus mi
اعذرني
Dialect 1
Boholano
Maghrebi
Where They Speak
Bohol
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Dialect 2
Southern Kana
Sudanese
Where They Speak
southern Leyte
Sudan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
North Kana
Levantine
Where They Speak
northern part of Leyte
Cyprus, Levant
How Many People Speak
Not Available
How Many People Speak?
Not Available
Native Name
Visayan
(al arabiya) العربية
Alternative Names
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
French Name
cebuano
arabe
German Name
Cebuano
Arabisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Ethnicity
Cebuano people
Arabs
Origin
16th century
512 CE
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Semitic
Branch
Not Available
North Arabic
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cebuano
Modern Standard Arabic
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Arabic
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data Available
ar
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
cebu1242
arab1395
Linguasphere
No data Available
12-AAC
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
Cebuano and Arabic Speaking population
Cebuano and Arabic speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cebuano and Arabic languages can be compared. The total count of Cebuano and Arabic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cebuano language is 0.32 % 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 Cebuano and Arabic on Cebuano vs Arabic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Cebuano and Arabic Language Codes
Cebuano and Arabic language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Cebuano and Arabic Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.