Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
  
National Language
Germany
  
France, Spain
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, 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
  
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
  
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.
  
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Spanish
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Basque-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Kaixo
  
Thank You
Danke
  
Eskerrik asko
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
Zer moduz?
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
Gabon
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
Arratsalde on
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
Arratsalde on
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
Egun on
  
Please
bitte
  
Mesedez
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
Barkatu
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
Agur
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
Maite zaitut
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
Barkatu
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Navarro-Lapurdian
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
France
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Souletin
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
France, Soule, Spain
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Biscayan
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Spain
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
7.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
7.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
Not Available
  
Native Name
Deutsch
  
Not available
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
  
French Name
allemand
  
basque
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Baskisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Basque people
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
c. 1000
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Vasconic Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Basque
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
eu
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
eus
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
baq
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
eus
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
basq1248
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
40-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
German and Basque Speaking population
German and Basque speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Basque languages can be compared. The total count of German and Basque Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Basque language is Not Available. 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 German and Basque on German vs Basque where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
German and Basque Language Codes
German and Basque language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. German and Basque Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.