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
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
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Amharic and Hebrew
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
أحبك
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
اعذرني
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Maghrebi
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Sudan
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Cyprus, Levant
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
(al arabiya) العربية
Alternative Names
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Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
French Name
chinois
arabe
German Name
Chinesisch
Arabisch
Pronunciation
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/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Subgroup
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Semitic
Branch
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North Arabic
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Modern Standard Arabic
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Signed Arabic
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
sini1245
arab1395
Linguasphere
79-AAA
12-AAC
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic
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.