Countries
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
France, Spain
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
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
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
  
Council for German Orthography
  
Interesting Facts
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
  
- 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
Spanish
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Basque-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Kaixo
  
hallo
  
Thank You
Eskerrik asko
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
Zer moduz?
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
Gabon
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
Arratsalde on
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
Arratsalde on
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
Egun on
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
Mesedez
  
bitte
  
Sorry
Barkatu
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
Agur
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
Maite zaitut
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
Barkatu
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Navarro-Lapurdian
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
France
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Souletin
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
France, Soule, Spain
  
Germany
  
Dialect 3
Biscayan
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
Spain
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
7.20 million
  
99+
229.00 million
  
8
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.20 million
  
99+
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
Not available
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
basque
  
allemand
  
German Name
Baskisch
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Basque people
  
Germans
  
Origin
c. 1000
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Vasconic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Basque
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
eu
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eus
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
baq
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
eus
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
basq1248
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
40-AAA-a
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Basque and German Speaking population
Basque and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Basque and German languages can be compared. The total count of Basque and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Basque language is Not Available 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 Basque and German on Basque vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Basque and German Language Codes
Basque and German language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Basque and German Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.