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
  
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
Danke
  
شكرا
  
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
  
Please
bitte
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
آسف
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
وداعا
  
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
4,500,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
452.00 million
  
4
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
246.00 million
  
2
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/
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Arabs
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Western
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
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 1
de
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
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 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 German and Arabic greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in German and Arabic language. German word for "Hello" is hallo or Arabic word for "Thank You" is شكرا. Find more of such common German Greetings and Arabic Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
German vs Arabic Difficulty
The German vs Arabic difficulty level basically depends on the number of German 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 German and Arabic are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Arabic, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Arabic time required is 88 weeks.