Countries
South Africa
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
South Africa
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Interesting Facts
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Dutch Language
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Dutch Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
Dankie
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
goeie nag
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
Goeienaand
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
goeie more
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
asseblief
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
jammer
  
آسف
  
Bye
Not Available
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Namibia
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
19.00 million
  
99+
452.00 million
  
4
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.10 million
  
99+
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
10.30 million
  
22
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
Afrikaans
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
afrikaans
  
arabe
  
German Name
Afrikaans
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
  
Arabs
  
Origin
17th Century
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Western
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
af
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
afr
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
afr
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
afr
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
afrs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
afri1274
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Afrikaans and Arabic Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Afrikaans and Arabic greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Afrikaans and Arabic language. Afrikaans word for "Hello" is hallo or Arabic word for "Thank You" is شكرا. Find more of such common Afrikaans Greetings and Arabic Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Afrikaans vs Arabic Difficulty
The Afrikaans vs Arabic difficulty level basically depends on the number of Afrikaans Alphabets and Arabic Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Afrikaans and Arabic are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Afrikaans and Arabic, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Afrikaans is 24 weeks while to learn Arabic time required is 88 weeks.