Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
  
National Language
Germany
  
Abkhazia
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
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
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Adyghe language, Abaza language
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Caucasian languages
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
hallo
  
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
  
Thank You
Danke
  
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  
Please
bitte
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
Not Available
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
Not available
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
Not available
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Bzyb
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Abkhazia
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Abzhywa
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Caucasus
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Sadz
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
0.13 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
0.13 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
Not Available
  
Native Name
Deutsch
  
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Abxazo, Abkhazian
  
French Name
allemand
  
abkhaze
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Abchasisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Abkhaz people
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
c. 1650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Northwest Caucasian
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Abkhaz
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
ab
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
abk
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
abk
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
abk
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
abks
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
abkh1244
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative