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German and Arabic


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  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland  

Total No. Of Countries
23  
4
7  
8

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  
Germany  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
North Dakota, United States of America  

Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia  
Europe  

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia  

Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council  
Council for German Orthography  

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.
  
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  

Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages  

Derived From
-  
Albanian Languages  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Arabic.jpg#200  
German-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
28  
10
26  
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
10  
7

How Many Consonants
28  
18
9  
1

Scripts
Arabic  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks  
19
30 weeks  
10

Greetings

Hello
مرحبا  
hallo  

Thank You
شكرا  
Danke  

How Are You?
كيف حالك؟  
Wie geht es dir?  

Good Night
تصبح على خير  
gute Nacht  

Good Evening
مساء الخير  
guten Abend  

Good Afternoon
مساء الخير  
guten Tag  

Good Morning
صباح الخير  
guten Morgen  

Please
من فضلك  
bitte  

Sorry
آسف  
Verzeihung  

Bye
وداعا  
Tschüs  

I Love You
أحبك  
Ich liebe dich  

Excuse Me
اعذرني  
Entschuldigung  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Maghrebi  
Swiss German  

Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia  
Switzerland  

How Many People Speak
310,000,000.00  
2
4,500,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Sudanese  
Swabian German  

Where They Speak
Sudan  
Germany  

How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00  
29
820,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Levantine  
Texas German  

Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant  
Texas  

How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00  
23
6,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
26  
22
28  
23

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
452.00 million  
4
229.00 million  
8

Speaking Population
4.43 %  
6
1.39 %  
13

Native Speakers
206.00 million  
6
101.00 million  
10

Second Language Speakers
246.00 million  
2
128.00 million  
5

Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية  
Deutsch  

Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic  
Deutsch, Tedesco  

French Name
arabe  
allemand  

German Name
Arabisch  
Deutsch  

Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]  

Ethnicity
Arabs  
Germans  

History

Origin
512 CE  
6th Century AD  

Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Semitic  
Germanic  

Branch
North Arabic  
Western  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German  

Language Position
25  
23
9  
9

Signed Forms
Signed Arabic  
Signed German  

Scope
Macrolanguage  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
ar  
de  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
ara  
deu  

ISO 639 2/B
ara  
ger  

ISO 639 3
ara  
deu  

ISO 639 6
ara  
deus  

Glottocode
arab1395  
high1287, uppe1397  

Linguasphere
12-AAC  
52-ACB–dl & -dm  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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

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Arabic and German Speaking population

Arabic and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Arabic and German languages can be compared. The total count of Arabic and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. 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 German on Arabic vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Arabic and German Language Codes

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

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