Countries
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
Total No. Of Countries
23
4
7
8
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
Alphabets in
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German-Alphabets.jpg#200
Alphabets
28
10
26
8
Phonology
How Many Vowels
8
5
10
7
How Many Consonants
28
18
9
1
Scripts
Arabic
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
4
3
6
5
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks
13
30 weeks
9
Greetings
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
Dialects
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
820,000.00
26
Dialect 3
Levantine
Texas German
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
Texas
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
3
6,000.00
35
Total No. Of Dialects
26
22
28
23
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
4
229.00 million
8
Speaking Population
4.43 %
6
1.39 %
12
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
History
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
Language Position
25
21
9
9
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Signed German
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
Code
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
