Arabic
ar · العربية
Arabic (ar) is written in the Arabic script, right to left and has an estimated 378.8M speakers. It is an official language in Western Sahara, Jordan, Kuwait, Palestinian Territories, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt and 20 more. CLDR has 29 locales for it.
Native nameالعربية
ScriptArabicArab
Speakers378.8Mestimated
Countries38
Locales29
Plural forms6zero, one, two, few, many, other
Overview
Where it is spoken
| Country | Status | Share of population |
|---|---|---|
| 🇪🇭 Western Sahara | Official | 100% |
| 🇯🇴 Jordan | Official | 100% |
| 🇰🇼 Kuwait | Official | 100% |
| 🇵🇸 Palestinian Territories | Official | 100% |
| 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia | Official | 100% |
| 🇪🇬 Egypt | Official | 94% |
| 🇹🇳 Tunisia | Official | 90% |
| 🇶🇦 Qatar | Official | 89% |
| 🇧🇭 Bahrain | Official | 87% |
| 🇱🇧 Lebanon | Official | 86% |
| 🇲🇷 Mauritania | Official | 85% |
| 🇴🇲 Oman | Official | 81% |
| 🇸🇾 Syria | Official | 80% |
| 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates | Official | 78% |
| 🇩🇿 Algeria | Official | 74% |
| 🇱🇾 Libya | Official | 74% |
| 🇾🇪 Yemen | Official | 74% |
| 🇮🇶 Iraq | Official | 68% |
| 🇰🇲 Comoros | Official | 66% |
| 🇲🇦 Morocco | Official | 62% |
| 🇸🇩 Sudan | Official | 61% |
| 🇸🇴 Somalia | Official | 34% |
| 🇸🇸 South Sudan | 27% | |
| 🇮🇱 Israel | Official | 20% |
| 🇹🇩 Chad | Official | 17% |
| 🇩🇯 Djibouti | Official | 7.3% |
| 🇪🇷 Eritrea | Official | 4.9% |
| 🇨🇦 Canada | 2.3% | |
| 🇮🇷 Iran | 2% | |
| 🇲🇱 Mali | 0.9% | |
| 🇹🇷 Türkiye | 0.56% | |
| 🇨🇲 Cameroon | 0.39% | |
| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 0.3% | |
| 🇳🇪 Niger | 0.21% | |
| 🇨🇾 Cyprus | 0.098% | |
| 🇳🇬 Nigeria | 0.071% | |
| 🇰🇪 Kenya | 0.046% | |
| 🇹🇯 Tajikistan | 0.0096% |
Plural categories
| Category | Examples |
|---|---|
| zero | 0 |
| one | 1 |
| two | 2 |
| few | 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 103, 104, … |
| many | 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, … |
| other | 100, 101, 102, 200, 0.5, 1.5, 2.5, 10.5, 100.5, 1000000 |