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
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
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Albanian Languages
Alphabets in
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German-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
I Love You
أحبك
Ich liebe dich
Excuse Me
اعذرني
Entschuldigung
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
Swiss German
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Switzerland
Dialect 2
Sudanese
Swabian German
Where They Speak
Sudan
Germany
Dialect 3
Levantine
Texas German
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
Texas
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]
Origin
512 CE
6th Century AD
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Germanic
Branch
North Arabic
Western
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Signed German
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
Glottocode
arab1395
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
12-AAC
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Arabic and German 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 German greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Arabic and German language. Arabic word for "Hello" is مرحبا or German word for "Thank You" is Danke. Find more of such common Arabic Greetings and German Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Arabic vs German Difficulty
The Arabic vs German difficulty level basically depends on the number of Arabic Alphabets and German 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 German are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Arabic and German, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Arabic is 88 weeks while to learn German time required is 30 weeks.