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