Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
National Language
Germany
  
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa, Europe
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
  
known, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)
  
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.
  
- Hungarian language has only preserved most of its ancient elements.
- 'Magyar' is the Hungarian name for the language, the 'Magyar' is also used as an English word to refer to Hungarian people.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Mansi and Khanty Languages
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
East and South Slavic Languages
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Hungarian-alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
szia
  
Thank You
Danke
  
köszönöm
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
Hogy vagy?
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
Jó Éjszakát
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
jó Estét
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
Jó Napot Kívánok
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
jó Reggelt
  
Please
bitte
  
Kérlek
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
bocsi
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
viszlát
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
Szeretlek
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
elnézést
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Csángó
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Bacău County, Rumania
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Oberwart
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Austria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Székely
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Székely Land
  
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
0.07 million
  
38
Native Name
Deutsch
  
magyar / magyar nyelv
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Magyar
  
French Name
allemand
  
hongrois
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Ungarisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
[ˈmɒɟɒr]
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Hungarians
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
1192 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Western
  
Ugric
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Hungarian
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Modern Hungarian
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
hu
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
hun
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
hun
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
hun
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
hung1274
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
ohu
  
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, Synthetic