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Countries

Countries

China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
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

North Korea, South Korea
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

Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

The National Institute of the Korean Language
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council

Interesting Facts

  • Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
  • Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
  • 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 and Japanese languages
Amharic and Hebrew

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

4028
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

218
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1928
9 60
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Scripts

Hangul
Arabic

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

34
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
مرحبا

Thank You

감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
شكرا

How Are You?

어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
كيف حالك؟

Good Night

안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
تصبح على خير

Good Evening

안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
مساء الخير

Good Afternoon

안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
مساء الخير

Good Morning

안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
صباح الخير

Please

하십시오 (hasibsio)
من فضلك

Sorry

죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
آسف

Bye

안녕 (annyeong)
وداعا

I Love You

당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
أحبك

Excuse Me

실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
اعذرني

Dialects

Dialect 1

Jeju
Maghrebi

Where They Speak

South Korea
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia

How Many People Speak

10,000.00310,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Gyeongsang
Sudanese

Where They Speak

South Korea
Sudan

How Many People Speak

10,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Hamgyŏng
Levantine

Where They Speak

China, North Korea
Cyprus, Levant

How Many People Speak

77,000,000.0021,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1226
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

77.00 million452.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.14 %4.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

77.00 million206.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

77.00 million246.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

한국어 (조선말)
(al arabiya) العربية

Alternative Names

Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic

French Name

coréen
arabe

German Name

Koreanisch
Arabisch

Pronunciation

[hangukmal]
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/

Ethnicity

Koreans
Arabs

History

Origin

Before 1st century
512 CE

Language Family

Koreanic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family

Subgroup

-
Semitic

Branch

-
North Arabic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
No early forms

Standard Forms

Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
Modern Standard Arabic

Language Position

1225
1 120
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Signed Forms

Korean Sign Language
Signed Arabic

Scope

Individual
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

ko
ar

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

kor
ara

ISO 639 2/B

kor
ara

ISO 639 3

Kor
ara

ISO 639 6

kor
ara

Glottocode

kore1280
arab1395

Linguasphere

45-AAA
12-AAC

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic

Korean and Arabic Alphabets

Korean and Arabic Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Korean and Arabic. In Korean Alphabets there are 40 letters while in Arabic Alphabets there are 28 letters. To learn Korean and Arabic languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Korean and Arabic languages. The Korean phonology consist Korean vowels and Korean consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Korean greetings vs Arabic greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Korean and Arabic are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Korean and Arabic Speaking population

Korean and Arabic speaking population is one of the factors based on which Korean and Arabic languages can be compared. The total count of Korean and Arabic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Korean language is 1.14 % 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 Korean and Arabic on Korean vs Arabic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Korean and Arabic Language Codes

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