ISO 639-3 · araara
Afroasiatic family · macrolanguage
Arabic
اللُّغَة العَرَبِيّة
Arabic is a macrolanguage of the Semitic branch (Afroasiatic), spoken in Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Somalia and 35 more countries. Wikidata counts 295 m first-language speakers (2019). Wikidata describes it as “Semitic language and lingua franca of the Arab world”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
ara- ISO 639-1
ar- Glottocode
arab1395- Family
- Afroasiatic
- UNESCO
- Safe
- Wikipedia
- 310 language editions
295 mfirst-language speakers
—second-language speakers
39countries
2scripts
2levels in the tree
SafeUNESCO level
Facts
| Name | Arabic · اللُّغَة العَرَبِيّة |
|---|---|
| Also called | Arabic language, Arabian, Arabian language |
| L1 speakers | 295,000,000 (2010) |
| All speakers | 315,421,300 (2019) |
| Written in | Arabic script, Arabic Braille |
| Official in | Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Somalia, Sudan, Palestine, Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Tunisia, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea |
| Grammatical cases | 4 listed in Wikidata |
| Grammatical genders | 2 listed in Wikidata |
| Kind | macrolanguage |
Vitality
UNESCO: Safe
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Afroasiatic to Arabic
The branches above Arabic, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Libyaofficial · 11 languages in the indexMauritaniaofficial · 8 languages in the indexMoroccoofficial · 14 languages in the indexSomaliaofficial · 13 languages in the indexSudanofficial · 73 languages in the indexPalestineofficial · 7 languages in the indexAlgeriaofficial · 18 languages in the indexBahrainofficial · 8 languages in the indexChadofficial · 117 languages in the indexEgyptofficial · 13 languages in the indexIraqofficial · 23 languages in the indexYemenofficial · 9 languages in the indexJordanofficial · 10 languages in the indexKuwaitofficial · 5 languages in the indexLebanonofficial · 8 languages in the indexOmanofficial · 17 languages in the indexQatarofficial · 4 languages in the indexSaudi Arabiaofficial · 12 languages in the indexSyriaofficial · 19 languages in the indexUnited Arab Emiratesofficial · 11 languages in the indexAfghanistanofficial · 46 languages in the indexTunisiaofficial · 7 languages in the indexComorosofficial · 6 languages in the indexDjiboutiofficial · 5 languages in the indexEritreaofficial · 14 languages in the indexIsrael30 languages in the indexSouth Sudan63 languages in the indexMali52 languages in the indexNiger18 languages in the indexIran78 languages in the indexSpain20 languages in the indexKenya68 languages in the indexSenegal34 languages in the indexTanzania117 languages in the indexTurkey40 languages in the indexRomania18 languages in the indexPortugal9 languages in the indexMalaysia113 languages in the indexIndonesia691 languages in the index
Also spoken in Libya
kauKanuriNilo-Saharan · 15 maylLibyan ArabicAfroasiatic · 4.3 m3 · Wider CommunicationtmhTuaregAfroasiatic · 1.2 mVulnerablejbnNafusiAfroasiatic · 140,0006a · VigorousthvTamahaqAfroasiatic · 112,9006b · ThreatenedtuqTedaNilo-Saharan · 42,5006a · VigorousghaGhadamèsAfroasiatic · 13,1006b · ThreatenedaujAwjilaAfroasiatic · 3,0008a · MoribundsizSiwaAfroasiatic6a · VigorousswnSoknaAfroasiatic10 · Extinct