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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 vs Arabic Speaking Countries

There are plenty of languages spoken around the world. Every country has its own official language. Compare Chinese vs Arabic speaking countries, so that you will have total count of countries that speak Chinese or Arabic language.

  • Chinese is spoken as a national language in: China, Taiwan.
  • Arabic is spoken as a national language in: Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen.

You will also get to know the continents where Chinese and Arabic speaking countries lie. Based on the number of people that speak these languages, the position of Chinese language is 1 and position of Arabic language is 25. Find all the information about these languages on Chinese and Arabic.

Chinese and Arabic Language History

Comparison of Chinese vs Arabic language history gives us differences between origin of Chinese and Arabic language. History of Chinese language states that this language originated in 1250 BC whereas history of Arabic language states that this language originated in 512 CE. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Chinese and Arabic Language History.

Chinese and Arabic Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Chinese and Arabic greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Arabic language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Arabic word for "Thank You" is شكرا. Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Arabic Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Chinese vs Arabic Difficulty

The Chinese vs Arabic difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese Alphabets and Arabic Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Chinese and Arabic are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Arabic, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Arabic time required is 88 weeks.