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Countries

Countries

China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
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

523
0 46
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National Language

China, Taiwan
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

Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Africa, Asia

Minority Language

Indonesia, Malaysia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council

Interesting Facts

  • 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.
  • 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

Japanese and Korean Languages
Amharic and Hebrew

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2628
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

248
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2328
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

64
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

您好 (Nín hǎo)
مرحبا

Thank You

谢谢 (Xièxiè)
شكرا

How Are You?

你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
كيف حالك؟

Good Night

晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
تصبح على خير

Good Evening

晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
مساء الخير

Good Afternoon

下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
مساء الخير

Good Morning

早安 (Zǎo ān)
صباح الخير

Please

请 (Qǐng)
من فضلك

Sorry

遗憾 (Yíhàn)
آسف

Bye

再见 (Zàijiàn)
وداعا

I Love You

我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
أحبك

Excuse Me

劳驾 (Láojià)
اعذرني

Dialects

Dialect 1

Mandarin
Maghrebi

Where They Speak

China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia

How Many People Speak

960,000,000.00310,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Wu
Sudanese

Where They Speak

China, United States of America
Sudan

How Many People Speak

80,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Yue
Levantine

Where They Speak

China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Cyprus, Levant

How Many People Speak

60,000,000.0021,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1026
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1,051.00 million452.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

16.00 %4.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

873.00 million206.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

178.00 million246.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

中文 (zhōngwén)
(al arabiya) العربية

Alternative Names

Zhongwen, Hanyu
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic

French Name

chinois
arabe

German Name

Chinesisch
Arabisch

Pronunciation

[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/

Ethnicity

Han
Arabs

History

Origin

1250 BC
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 Chinese
Modern Standard Arabic

Language Position

125
1 120
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Signed Forms

Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed Arabic

Scope

Individual
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

zh
ar

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

zho
ara

ISO 639 2/B

chi
ara

ISO 639 3

zho
ara

ISO 639 6

zho
ara

Glottocode

sini1245
arab1395

Linguasphere

79-AAA
12-AAC

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic

Chinese and Arabic Alphabets

Chinese and Arabic Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Chinese and Arabic. In Chinese Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Arabic Alphabets there are 28 letters. To learn Chinese and Arabic languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Chinese and Arabic languages. The Chinese phonology consist Chinese vowels and Chinese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Chinese greetings vs Arabic greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Chinese and Arabic are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Chinese and Arabic Speaking population

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

Chinese and Arabic Language Codes

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