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
  
South Africa
  
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
  
South Africa
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Namibia, South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
  
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.
  
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Dutch Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Dutch Language
  
Alphabets in
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Afrikaans-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
  
Dankie
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
Hoe gaan dit
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
goeie nag
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
Goeienaand
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
Goeie middag
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
goeie more
  
Please
من فضلك
  
asseblief
  
Sorry
آسف
  
jammer
  
Bye
وداعا
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
Ek het jou lief
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
Verskoon my
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Kaapse Afrikaans
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Oranjeriverafrikaans
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Baster Afrikaans
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Namibia
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
19.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
7.10 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
10.30 million
  
22
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Afrikaans
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Cape Dutch
  
French Name
arabe
  
afrikaans
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Afrikaans
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Afrikaners
  
Origin
512 CE
  
17th Century
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Germanic
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Standard Afrikaans
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
af
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
afr
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
afr
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
afr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
afrs
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
afri1274
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
52-ACB-ba
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Analytic
  
Arabic and Afrikaans 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 Arabic and Afrikaans greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Arabic and Afrikaans language. Arabic word for "Hello" is مرحبا or Afrikaans word for "Thank You" is Dankie. Find more of such common Arabic Greetings and Afrikaans Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Arabic vs Afrikaans Difficulty
The Arabic vs Afrikaans difficulty level basically depends on the number of Arabic Alphabets and Afrikaans 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 Arabic and Afrikaans are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Arabic and Afrikaans, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Arabic is 88 weeks while to learn Afrikaans time required is 24 weeks.