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Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries
7 8

National Language
Germany

Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents
Europe

Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By
Council for German Orthography

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.

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

Derived From
Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200

Alphabets
26 8

Phonology

How Many Vowels
10 7

How Many Consonants
9 1

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks 9

Greetings

Hello
hallo

Thank You
Danke

How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night
gute Nacht

Good Evening
guten Abend

Good Afternoon
guten Tag

Good Morning
guten Morgen

Please
bitte

Sorry
Verzeihung

Bye
Tschüs

I Love You
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1
Swiss German

Where They Speak
Switzerland

How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00 18

Dialect 2
Swabian German

Where They Speak
Germany

How Many People Speak
820,000.00 26

Dialect 3
Texas German

Where They Speak
Texas

How Many People Speak
6,000.00 35

Total No. Of Dialects
28 23

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
229.00 million 8

Speaking Population
1.39 % 12

Native Speakers
101.00 million 10

Second Language Speakers
128.00 million 5

Native Name
Deutsch

Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name
allemand

German Name
Deutsch

Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity
Germans

History

Origin
6th Century AD

Language Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup
Germanic

Branch
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms
No early forms

Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position
9 9

Signed Forms
Signed German

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
deu

ISO 639 2/B
ger

ISO 639 3
deu

ISO 639 6
deus

Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type
Living

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

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic

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Know Alphabets in German

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About German Language, where you will learn the number of letter in German Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in German. German phonology gives German vowels and German consonants. There are 10 vowels and 9 consonants in German language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if German is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about German language is given in detail in this section.

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All German countries

Want to explore all German countries? About German language serves you with all German Speaking Countries. Countries that use German as official language are called as German countries.

  • Countries that use German as their National Language are: Germany.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use German as second language are: North Dakota, United States of America.

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Learn German greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn German Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about German language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in German language.Learn German greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: hallo
  • Thank you: Danke
  • Good Morning: guten Morgen
  • Good Evening: guten Abend
  • Good Afternoon: guten Tag

All German Language Codes

Get to know all German language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All German Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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