Countries
East Asia, European Union, South America
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
East Asia, European Union
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, South America
  
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
Akademio de Esperanto
  
Council for German Orthography
  
Interesting Facts
- The most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
- Esperanto is an artificial international language.
  
- 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
Not Available
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Esperanto-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Halo
  
hallo
  
Thank You
Dankon
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
Kiel vi sanas?
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
Bonan nokton
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
Bonan vesperon
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
Bonan posttagmezon
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
Bonan matenon
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
Mi petas
  
bitte
  
Sorry
Mi bedaŭras!
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
Ĝis poste
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
Mi amas vin
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
Pardonu!
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Not present
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
Not present
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Not present
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
Not present
  
Germany
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
Not present
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Total No. Of Dialects
0
  
How Many People Speak?
2.20 million
  
99+
229.00 million
  
8
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.20 million
  
99+
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
Esperanto
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
espéranto
  
allemand
  
German Name
Esperanto
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
[espeˈranto]
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Germans
  
Origin
1887
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Esperanto
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Esperanto
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signuno
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
eo
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
epo
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
epo
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
epo
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
espe1235
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
51-AAB-da
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Constructed
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Esperanto 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 Esperanto and German greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Esperanto and German language. Esperanto word for "Hello" is Halo or German word for "Thank You" is Danke. Find more of such common Esperanto Greetings and German Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Esperanto vs German Difficulty
The Esperanto vs German difficulty level basically depends on the number of Esperanto 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 Esperanto and German are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Esperanto and German, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Esperanto is 6 weeks while to learn German time required is 30 weeks.