Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
National Language
Germany
  
Azerbaijan, Gambia
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
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
  
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  
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.
  
- Even though Official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, the Business language is Azerbaijani, English and Russian.
- Azerbaijan is known as “Land of Fire”, is country with unique culture and spellbinding history.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Turkish
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Osmanly language
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Azerbaijani-alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
hallo
  
Salam
  
Thank You
Danke
  
Təşəkkür edirəm
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
necəsən
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
yaxşı gecə
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
Axşamınız xeyir
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
Günortanız Xeyir
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
Sabahınız xeyir
  
Please
bitte
  
lütfən
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
üzr
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
xudafiz
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
Mən səni sevirəm
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
Bağışlayın
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Derbent
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Russia
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Gazakh
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Azerbaijan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Baku
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Azerbaijan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
26.00 million
  
39
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
23.00 million
  
34
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
Not Available
  
Native Name
Deutsch
  
Azərbaycan dili / Азәрбајҹан дили / آذربايجانجا ديلي
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Azeri, Azari, Azeri Turkish, Azerbaijani Turkish
  
French Name
allemand
  
azéri
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Aserbeidschanisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
[ɑzærbɑjdʒɑn dili]
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Azerbaijani
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
16th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Western
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Azerbaijani
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
az
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
aze
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
aze
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
aze
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
azer1255
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative