Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
Georgia
  
National Language
Germany
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
  
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
  
Cabinet of Georgia
  
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.
  
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Anatolian Languages
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Georgian script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
  
Thank You
Danke
  
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Please
bitte
  
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
ბოდიში (bodishi)
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Judaeo-Georgian
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Kartlian
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Kartli
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Pshavian
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Pshavi
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
4.30 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
4.30 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
Not Available
  
Native Name
Deutsch
  
ქართული ენა
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
  
French Name
allemand
  
géorgien
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Georgisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Georgians
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
5th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Kartvelian Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Southern
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Modern Georgian
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
ka
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
kat
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
geo
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
kat
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
nucl1302
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic