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Countries

Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries

723
0 46
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National Language

Germany
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Europe
Africa, Asia

Minority Language

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

Regulated By

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

Interesting Facts

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

Similar To

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

Derived From

Albanian Languages
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2628
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

108
0 32
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How Many Consonants

928
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Arabic

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

64
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
مرحبا

Thank You

Danke
شكرا

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?
كيف حالك؟

Good Night

gute Nacht
تصبح على خير

Good Evening

guten Abend
مساء الخير

Good Afternoon

guten Tag
مساء الخير

Good Morning

guten Morgen
صباح الخير

Please

bitte
من فضلك

Sorry

Verzeihung
آسف

Bye

Tschüs
وداعا

I Love You

Ich liebe dich
أحبك

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung
اعذرني

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German
Maghrebi

Where They Speak

Switzerland
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.00310,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Swabian German
Sudanese

Where They Speak

Germany
Sudan

How Many People Speak

820,000.0017,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Texas German
Levantine

Where They Speak

Texas
Cyprus, Levant

How Many People Speak

6,000.0021,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2826
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

229.00 million452.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.39 %4.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

101.00 million206.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million246.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Deutsch
(al arabiya) العربية

Alternative Names

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

French Name

allemand
arabe

German Name

Deutsch
Arabisch

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/

Ethnicity

Germans
Arabs

History

Origin

6th Century AD
512 CE

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Semitic

Branch

Western
North Arabic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

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

Language Position

925
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed German
Signed Arabic

Scope

Individual
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

de
ar

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu
ara

ISO 639 2/B

ger
ara

ISO 639 3

deu
ara

ISO 639 6

deus
ara

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397
arab1395

Linguasphere

52-ACB–dl & -dm
12-AAC

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

German and Arabic Alphabets

German and Arabic Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in German and Arabic. In German Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Arabic Alphabets there are 28 letters. To learn German and Arabic languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of German and Arabic languages. The German phonology consist German vowels and German consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at German greetings vs Arabic greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether German and Arabic are Most Spoken Languages.

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

German and Arabic Speaking population

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

German and Arabic Language Codes

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