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1 Countries
1.1 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
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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23
Rank: 4 (Overall)
1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
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1.3 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
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.7 Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
1.8 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.
  • Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
  • Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
1.9 Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
Dutch Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Dutch Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
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28
Rank: 10 (Overall)
32
Rank: 14 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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8
Rank: 5 (Overall)
15
Rank: 12 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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28
Rank: 18 (Overall)
17
Rank: 7 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Arabic
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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4
Rank: 3 (Overall)
3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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88 weeks
Rank: 13 (Overall)
24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
مرحبا
hallo
3.2 Thank You
شكرا
Dankie
3.3 How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
Hoe gaan dit
3.4 Good Night
تصبح على خير
goeie nag
3.5 Good Evening
مساء الخير
Goeienaand
3.6 Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
Goeie middag
3.7 Good Morning
صباح الخير
goeie more
3.8 Please
من فضلك
asseblief
3.9 Sorry
آسف
jammer
3.10 Bye
وداعا
Not Available
3.11 I Love You
أحبك
Ek het jou lief
3.12 Excuse Me
اعذرني
Verskoon my
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Maghrebi
Kaapse Afrikaans
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Not Available
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.2 Dialect 2
Sudanese
Oranjeriverafrikaans
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Sudan
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
About Chinese L..
17,000,000.00
Rank: 6 (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
4.3 Dialect 3
Levantine
Baster Afrikaans
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
Namibia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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21,000,000.00
Rank: 3 (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
About English L..
26
Rank: 22 (Overall)
3
Rank: 3 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
About English L..
452.00 million
Rank: 4 (Overall)
19.00 million
Rank: 43 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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4.43 %
Rank: 6 (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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5.3 Native Speakers
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206.00 million
Rank: 6 (Overall)
7.10 million
Rank: 58 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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246.00 million
Rank: 2 (Overall)
10.30 million
Rank: 22 (Overall)
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5.3.2 Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
Afrikaans
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Cape Dutch
5.3.4 French Name
arabe
afrikaans
5.3.5 German Name
Arabisch
Afrikaans
5.4 Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
5.5 Ethnicity
Arabs
Afrikaners
6 History
6.1 Origin
512 CE
17th Century
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Semitic
Germanic
6.2.2 Branch
North Arabic
Western
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Standard Afrikaans
6.3.3 Language Position
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Rank: 21 (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
6.4 Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
ar
af
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
ara
afr
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
ara
afr
7.3 ISO 639 3
ara
afr
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
afrs
7.5 Glottocode
arab1395
afri1274
7.6 Linguasphere
12-AAC
52-ACB-ba
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic

Arabic and Afrikaans Alphabets

Arabic and Afrikaans Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Arabic and Afrikaans. In Arabic Alphabets there are 28 letters while in Afrikaans Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Arabic and Afrikaans languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Arabic and Afrikaans languages. The Arabic phonology consist Arabic vowels and Arabic consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Arabic greetings vs Afrikaans greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Arabic and Afrikaans are Most Spoken Languages.

All Arabic and Afrikaans Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Arabic and Afrikaans dialects. Various dialects of Arabic and Afrikaans language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Arabic are spoken in different Arabic Speaking Countries whereas Afrikaans Dialects are spoken in different Afrikaans speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Arabic vs Afrikaans Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Arabic dialects include: Maghrebi, Sudanese. Afrikaans dialects include: Kaapse Afrikaans , Oranjeriverafrikaans. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Arabic and Afrikaans Speaking population

Arabic and Afrikaans speaking population is one of the factors based on which Arabic and Afrikaans languages can be compared. The total count of Arabic and Afrikaans Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is Not Available. 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 Arabic and Afrikaans on Arabic vs Afrikaans where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Arabic and Afrikaans Language Codes

Arabic and Afrikaans language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Arabic and Afrikaans Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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