Language Info

Arabic written in Arabic script

Below you'll find all the characters used to write this language and all the countries where this language is used.

Standard Characters

The minimal characters required for this language

Auxiliary Characters

Additional letters (beyond the minimal set) used in foreign or technical words found in typical magazines, newspapers, etc..

Punctuation Characters

The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning

Unicode Blocks

Arabic uses characters from the following Unicode blocks

Countries

The worldwide literate language population for Arabic is 323,004,801 people across 36 countries.

Egypt

91,218,634 people
94.00% literate in Arabic

Algeria

30,317,356 people
74.00% literate in Arabic

Saudi Arabia

28,571,800 people
100.00% literate in Arabic

Iraq

26,650,628 people
68.00% literate in Arabic

Sudan

22,780,999 people
61.00% literate in Arabic

Morocco

21,071,754 people
62.00% literate in Arabic

Yemen

20,747,232 people
74.00% literate in Arabic

Syria

14,422,800 people
80.00% literate in Arabic

Tunisia

10,263,420 people
90.00% literate in Arabic

Jordan

10,248,100 people
100.00% literate in Arabic

Lebanon

5,357,619 people
86.00% literate in Arabic

Libya

4,923,375 people
74.00% literate in Arabic

United Arab Emirates

4,736,534 people
78.00% literate in Arabic

Palestinian Territories

4,543,130 people
100.00% literate in Arabic

Somalia

3,750,676 people
34.00% literate in Arabic

South Sudan

3,517,047 people
27.00% literate in Arabic

Mauritania

3,194,784 people

Kuwait

2,875,420 people

Oman

2,773,755 people

Qatar

2,059,735 people

Chad

2,052,920 people

Israel

1,659,942 people

Iran

1,640,432 people

Bahrain

1,227,517 people

Western Sahara

603,253 people

Comoros

533,332 people

Turkey

452,733 people

Eritrea

290,027 people

Mali

159,178 people

Nigeria

135,348 people

Cameroon

97,480 people

Djibouti

63,164 people

Niger

40,415 people

Kenya

21,903 people

Cyprus

1,343 people

Tajikistan

1,016 people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places, and we want to give them credit here. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes that support the language.

  1. Unicode CLDR
  2. CLDR Exemplar Characters