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
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
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
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
South Africa
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
France, Germany, Indonesia
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
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.
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
German and English Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
hoe gaat het met je?
Good Night
تصبح على خير
goede Nacht
Good Evening
مساء الخير
goedenavond
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
goedemiddag
Good Morning
صباح الخير
goedemorgen
Please
من فضلك
alsjeblieft
I Love You
أحبك
Ik hou van jou
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
Gronings
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Netherlands
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Sudanese
Low Saxon
Where They Speak
Sudan
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Dialect 3
Levantine
Limburgian
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
Belgium, Netherlands
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
Nederlands
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Hollands, Nederlands
French Name
arabe
néerlandais; flamand
German Name
Arabisch
Niederländisch
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Ethnicity
Arabs
Dutch people
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Germanic
Branch
North Arabic
Western
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Standard Dutch
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
arab1395
mode1257
Linguasphere
12-AAC
52-ACB-a
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic
Arabic and Dutch 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 Dutch greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Arabic and Dutch language. Arabic word for "Hello" is مرحبا or Dutch word for "Thank You" is dankjewel. Find more of such common Arabic Greetings and Dutch Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Arabic vs Dutch Difficulty
The Arabic vs Dutch difficulty level basically depends on the number of Arabic Alphabets and Dutch 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 Dutch are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Arabic and Dutch, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Arabic is 88 weeks while to learn Dutch time required is 24 weeks.