Language comparison
Arabic vs Hebrew
Both belong to the Afro-Asiatic family; their closest common node in the Glottolog tree: Central Semitic. Both are used in: Israel.
Relatedness is not mutual intelligibility: languages of one branch can be unintelligible to each other, while very close ones (such as Serbian and Croatian) differ mainly in status and script. That is why we give no “similarity percentage”.
Arabic
العربية
- Family and branch (Glottolog)
- Afro-Asiatic
- Semitic
- West Semitic
- Central Semitic
- Arabian
- Arabic
- Arabic
- Script
- Arabic
- Hello / thank you
- مرحبا / شكرا (marḥaban / shukran)
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 379 million sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Official (16)
- Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria, Jordan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Libya, Palestine, Lebanon, Mauritania, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Western Sahara
- Co-official (9)
- Algeria, Sudan, Iraq, Morocco, Somalia, Chad, Comoros, Eritrea, Djibouti
- Without status
- widely used in 2 countries, a minority language in 11 countries
Hebrew
עברית
- Family and branch (Glottolog)
- Afro-Asiatic
- Semitic
- West Semitic
- Central Semitic
- Northwest Semitic
- Canaanite
- Hebrewic
- Hebrew
- Script
- Hebrew
- Hello / thank you
- שלום / תודה (shalom / toda)
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 9.4 million sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Official (1)
- Israel
Where they are spoken
- Arabic 26
- Hebrew 0
- both 1
Countries where the language has a legal status or is known by at least 10% of the population (CLDR); countries where it is only a minority language are not shown.