Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
Myanmar
  
National Language
Germany
  
Myanmar
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Bangladesh, Burma
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Mon
  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
  
Myanmar Language Commission
  
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 naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Thai Language
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Pali Language
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Tangut
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
  
Thank You
Danke
  
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
  
Please
bitte
  
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Arakanese
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
2,000,000.00
  
24
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Tavoyan
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Myanmar
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Intha
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Burma
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
43.00 million
  
30
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
33.00 million
  
28
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
10.00 million
  
23
Native Name
Deutsch
  
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
  
French Name
allemand
  
birman
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Birmanisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Bamar people
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
1113 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Modern Burmese
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Burmese sign language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
my
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
mya
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
bur
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
mya
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
sout3159
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating