Which is closer to Indo-European languages; Arabic or Chinese?

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>>77751515

Spanish is indoeuropean and we have some arabic loanwords
So I guess arabic

>>77751515
Possibly Arabic. Read about the Nostratic language superfamily hypothesis.
>>77751900
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>>77751900
> we have loanwords
>therefore arabic is closer
> not vice versa

Arabic and Indo-European languages have likely given more loanwords to each other (I don't know about specifically Indo-Aryan and Chinese though) but someone else will have to comment on syntax, grammar and phonology

as far as genetic relationships are concerned, they'd date back to the Mesolithic at best so good luck there

Tagalog

>>77751515
Arabic, because it's closer and both populations have exchanged loanwords over centuria

chinese is pretty far from indo-european

Arabic is closer to Indo-European languages I'd say:

>much more shared vocabulary
>Arabic and Indo-European languages (apart from Punjabi perhaps) have no tones