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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
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname

Total No. Of Countries

236
0 46
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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
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
South Africa

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia
Asia, Europe, North America, South America

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
France, Germany, Indonesia

Regulated By

Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)

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.
  • 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.

Similar To

Amharic and Hebrew
German and English Languages

Derived From

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2826
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

86
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2821
9 60
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Scripts

Arabic
Latin

Writing Direction

Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

46
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

مرحبا
Hallo

Thank You

شكرا
dankjewel

How Are You?

كيف حالك؟
hoe gaat het met je?

Good Night

تصبح على خير
goede Nacht

Good Evening

مساء الخير
goedenavond

Good Afternoon

مساء الخير
goedemiddag

Good Morning

صباح الخير
goedemorgen

Please

من فضلك
alsjeblieft

Sorry

آسف
sorry

Bye

وداعا
vaarwel

I Love You

أحبك
Ik hou van jou

Excuse Me

اعذرني
pardon

Dialects

Dialect 1

Maghrebi
Gronings

Where They Speak

Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Netherlands

How Many People Speak

310,000,000.00590,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Sudanese
Low Saxon

Where They Speak

Sudan
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands

How Many People Speak

17,000,000.004,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Levantine
Limburgian

Where They Speak

Cyprus, Levant
Belgium, Netherlands

How Many People Speak

21,000,000.001,300,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

267
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

452.00 million28.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

4.43 %0.32 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

206.00 million22.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

246.00 million6.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

(al arabiya) العربية
Nederlands

Alternative Names

Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Hollands, Nederlands

French Name

arabe
néerlandais; flamand

German Name

Arabisch
Niederländisch

Pronunciation

/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]

Ethnicity

Arabs
Dutch people

History

Origin

512 CE
AD 450-500

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Semitic
Germanic

Branch

North Arabic
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch

Standard Forms

Modern Standard Arabic
Standard Dutch

Language Position

2548
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Arabic
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ar
nl

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ara
nld

ISO 639 2/B

ara
dut

ISO 639 3

ara
nld

ISO 639 6

ara
nld

Glottocode

arab1395
mode1257

Linguasphere

12-AAC
52-ACB-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Historical

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic

Arabic and Dutch Alphabets

Arabic and Dutch Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Arabic and Dutch. In Arabic Alphabets there are 28 letters while in Dutch Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Arabic and Dutch languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Arabic and Dutch 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 Dutch greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Arabic and Dutch are Most Spoken Languages.

All Arabic and Dutch 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 Dutch dialects. Various dialects of Arabic and Dutch language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Arabic are spoken in different Arabic Speaking Countries whereas Dutch Dialects are spoken in different Dutch speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Arabic vs Dutch Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Arabic dialects include: Maghrebi, Sudanese. Dutch dialects include: Gronings , Low Saxon. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Arabic and Dutch Speaking population

Arabic and Dutch speaking population is one of the factors based on which Arabic and Dutch languages can be compared. The total count of Arabic and Dutch Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 %. 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 Dutch on Arabic vs Dutch where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Arabic and Dutch Language Codes

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