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Countries with the Most Arabic Speakers

Name the 10 countries that have the highest number of native speakers of Arabic.

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Last updated: November 13, 2016

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#	%	Country
82 mil	93	Egypt
30 mil	72	Algeria
28 mil	70	Sudan
25 mil	74	Morocco
23 mil	66	Iraq

#	%	Country
21 mil	92	Syria
17 mil	56	Saudi Arabia
15 mil	55	Yemen
11 mil	98	Tunisia
5.1 mil	67	Jordan

SundarIsaacs

level 64

Nov 14, 2016

Tiny Tunisia...hmmm...

kalbahamut

level 75

Jul 7, 2018

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

Freestatebear

level 75

Nov 14, 2016

Surprised at the low percentages for Saudi Arabia and Yemen!

Quizmaster

level ∞

Nov 15, 2016

Not sure about Yemen, but my guess is that the population for Saudi Arabia includes a lot of menial laborers from South Asia.

DoctorPhil

level 27

Dec 17, 2016

My thoughts exactly. Btw. there being so many language quizzes on Jetpunk don't you think it's time for a "language badge"? ;)

catlover2496

level 39

May 10, 2017

+1 DoctorPhil

Dijko

level 45

Jan 2, 2018

On your other quizzes If morocco is a answer, i type "morroco" and that gets accepted, why not this time? I got 9/10 instead of 10/10

tshalla

level 66

Jul 7, 2018

I'm shocked by that Yemen percentage. I really can't figure that one out. Is it possible that there's a differentiation between different dialects of Arabic?

kalbahamut

level 75

Jul 7, 2018

I never knew any Yemenis that didn't speak Arabic and I've known many. The Wikipedia article on the subject lists many other native languages spoken in the country, but none with very high numbers of speakers.

Starling123

level 49

May 10, 2017

it's 99% for Saudi arabia

Chestnuthare

level 57

May 10, 2017

They meant percentage of Arabic speakers, which is 56% of the population. Pretty low for a country that has Arabia in the name eh?

ChipOtley

level 71

May 11, 2017

The other 44% speak Saudi

aalexv

level 53

May 10, 2017

Most quizzes accept 'Moroco,' could you add that alteration?

coolbrain1

level 32

May 11, 2017

no france?

ponnuki

level 55

May 22, 2017

Only about 1.1 million

divantilya

level 38

Apr 9, 2018

No Oman?

GeographyGeek42

level 53

Dec 27, 2018

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?

Sifhraven

level 46

Jan 16, 2019

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

Sifhraven

level 46

Jan 16, 2019

Weird how half of these are in africa and not he middle east :o. Lately ( i believe through this site) I learned arabic was spoken in egypt. BUt had no idea about the other countries, and was also surprised that not the entire middle east was considered as arabic speaking. Learned something knew. (will now have to look up what languages they speak in morocco though, cause we call it marokkaans.)

if besides moroccan/marrokaans I had to guess another language I would have said berber

Sifhraven

level 46

Jan 16, 2019

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 ?)