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
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
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
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.
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
Dutch Language
Derived From
-
Dutch Language
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
تصبح على خير
goeie nag
Good Evening
مساء الخير
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
Goeie middag
Good Morning
صباح الخير
goeie more
I Love You
أحبك
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
اعذرني
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
-
Dialect 2
Sudanese
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Dialect 3
Levantine
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
Namibia
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Cape Dutch
French Name
arabe
afrikaans
German Name
Arabisch
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
Arabs
Afrikaners
Origin
512 CE
17th Century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Germanic
Branch
North Arabic
Western
Early Forms
No early forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Standard Afrikaans
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
Glottocode
arab1395
afri1274
Linguasphere
12-AAC
52-ACB-ba
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic
Arabic and Afrikaans 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 Arabic and Afrikaans greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Arabic and Afrikaans language. Arabic word for "Hello" is مرحبا or Afrikaans word for "Thank You" is Dankie. Find more of such common Arabic Greetings and Afrikaans Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Arabic vs Afrikaans Difficulty
The Arabic vs Afrikaans difficulty level basically depends on the number of Arabic Alphabets and Afrikaans 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 Arabic and Afrikaans are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Arabic and Afrikaans, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Arabic is 88 weeks while to learn Afrikaans time required is 24 weeks.