Countries with the Most Arabic Speakers

The other 16 countries that have Arabic as an official language are for the most part also tiny or at least not very populous.

Not very tiny - about twice the size (in both area and population) of Ireland, for example

But then it is the tiniest country on this quiz

Makes it a problem

I got all the countries except tunisia with 1 min left

and then my time ran out guessing it

It's not even the tiniest country on this quizz: it's more populous and nearly twice as big as Jordan.

No, Man.

O, man!

I have the percent of Arabic speakers in Oman as 88.6% according to Wikipedia. This is probably wrong, so what source are you using?

the percentage does not really matter. The total in oman is 2.5 million so not enough to make this list.

What source are you using? Because for saudi Arabia I get more like 90%. 27 million instead of 17 million native arabic speakers.

(or a typo? accidentally used a 1 instead of 2 ?)

I assume it includes the millions of expats from the Philippines, India, Pakistan, the USA, Indonesia, Bangladesh, etc - almost none of which speak Arabic - who make up more than 30% of the population of the country.

Ok, thanks for the reply :)

Only missed Sudan

Hey Quizmaster, do you think we could have the ability to switch the type of quiz we are making (i.e. normal, picture, and multiple choice) as we are making it. I cannot tell you how many times I have been trying to make a picture quiz, and I am 5 minutes in and I realize I am making a normal, not picture, quiz. You do not have to, but I think it would be a nice feature.

Yea I have the same problem many times too

Arabic dialects differ greatly from country to country. The Levantine (Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine) countries all speak similarly, but there are still noticeable differences between how a Palestinian and Syrian would speak Arabic. The Gulf countries also speak a little differently. Living in the UAE, I noticed the Arabic that Emiratis spoke had strong influences of Hindi and Farsi, likely because of how many Indian and Iranian expats there are over there. Egypt has its own unique dialect, infamous for using the 'G' in 'gumdrop' in place of the G in 'Giraffe' most of the time, despite the fact that the former sound does not exist in formal Arabic. Then you go to the north African countries, and you find that they have strong influences of French and Berber. I cannot for the life of me understand a word that someone who speaks traditional Moroccan is saying. Algerians also tend to speak more French, at least that's what I noticed from the ones I met.

I thought huh where is Libya? what do they speak there then? But it's population is simply too small to make the list.

No UAE? I am surprised