Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
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
Germany
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
North Dakota, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Interesting Facts
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
- 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Amharic and Hebrew
Derived From
Albanian Languages
Not Available
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
كيف حالك؟
Good Night
gute Nacht
تصبح على خير
Good Evening
guten Abend
مساء الخير
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
مساء الخير
Good Morning
guten Morgen
صباح الخير
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
أحبك
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
اعذرني
Dialect 1
Swiss German
Maghrebi
Where They Speak
Switzerland
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Swabian German
Sudanese
Where They Speak
Germany
Sudan
Dialect 3
Texas German
Levantine
Where They Speak
Texas
Cyprus, Levant
Native Name
Deutsch
(al arabiya) العربية
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
French Name
allemand
arabe
German Name
Deutsch
Arabisch
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Origin
6th Century AD
512 CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Semitic
Branch
Western
North Arabic
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Modern Standard Arabic
Signed Forms
Signed German
Signed Arabic
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
deus
Not Available
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
arab1395
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
12-AAC
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
German and Arabic Speaking population
German and Arabic speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Arabic languages can be compared. The total count of German and Arabic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak German and Arabic on German vs Arabic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
German and Arabic Language Codes
German and Arabic language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. German and Arabic Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.