Countries
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
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Council for German Orthography
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Arabic.jpg#200
  
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
hallo
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
من فضلك
  
bitte
  
Sorry
آسف
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
وداعا
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Germany
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
229.00 million
  
8
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
arabe
  
allemand
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Germans
  
Origin
512 CE
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Germanic
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic