Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
  
National Language
Germany
  
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Roman Empire
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
  
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
  
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.
  
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Armenian
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Greek-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
γεια σας (geia sas)
  
Thank You
Danke
  
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
  
Please
bitte
  
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
αντίο (antío)
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Cappadocian Greek
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Greece
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Griko
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Italy
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Mariupol
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
13.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
13.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
Not Available
  
Native Name
Deutsch
  
ελληνικά
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
  
French Name
allemand
  
grec moderne (après 1453)
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Neugriechisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
[eliniˈka]
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Greeks or Hellenes
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Hellenic
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Modern Greek
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Greek Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
el
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
ell
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
gre
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
ell
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
ells
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
gree1276
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
56-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic