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Japanese and German


Countries

Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland  
Japan  

Total No. Of Countries
7  
8
1  
14

National Language
Germany  
Japan  

Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia, Pacific  

Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia  
Palau  

Regulated By
Council for German Orthography  
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education  

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.
  
  • In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
  

Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages  
Korean Language  

Derived From
Albanian Languages  
Not Available  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Japanese-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
26  
8
99  
40

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10  
7
5  
2

How Many Consonants
9  
1
14  
4

Scripts
Latin  
Kana  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
5  
4

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks  
9
88 weeks  
13

Greetings

Hello
hallo  
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)  

Thank You
Danke  
ありがとう (Arigatō)  

How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?  
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)  

Good Night
gute Nacht  
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)  

Good Evening
guten Abend  
こんばんは (Konbanwa)  

Good Afternoon
guten Tag  
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)  

Good Morning
guten Morgen  
おはよう (Ohayō)  

Please
bitte  
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)  

Sorry
Verzeihung  
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)  

Bye
Tschüs  
さようなら (Sayōnara)  

I Love You
Ich liebe dich  
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)  

Excuse Me
Entschuldigung  
すみません (Sumimasen)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Swiss German  
Sanuki  

Where They Speak
Switzerland  
Kagawa  

How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00  
18
1,000,000.00  
28

Dialect 2
Swabian German  
Hakata  

Where They Speak
Germany  
Fukuoka  

How Many People Speak
820,000.00  
26
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Texas German  
Kansai  

Where They Speak
Texas  
kansai  

How Many People Speak
6,000.00  
35
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
28  
23
31  
25

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
229.00 million  
8
128.00 million  
14

Speaking Population
1.39 %  
12
1.90 %  
10

Native Speakers
101.00 million  
10
128.00 million  
9

Second Language Speakers
128.00 million  
5
Not Available  

Native Name
Deutsch  
日本語  

Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco  
Not Available  

French Name
allemand  
japonais  

German Name
Deutsch  
Japanisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]  
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]  

Ethnicity
Germans  
Japanese (Yamato)  

History

Origin
6th Century AD  
1185  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Japonic Family  

Subgroup
Germanic  
Not Available  

Branch
Western  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese  

Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German  
Japanese  

Language Position
9  
9
8  
8

Signed Forms
Signed German  
Signed Japanese  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
de  
ja  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
deu  
jpn  

ISO 639 2/B
ger  
jpn  

ISO 639 3
deu  
jpn  

ISO 639 6
deus  
Not Available  

Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397  
nucl1643  

Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm  
45-CAA-a  

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  

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All German and Japanese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all German and Japanese dialects. Various dialects of German and Japanese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of German are spoken in different German Speaking Countries whereas Japanese Dialects are spoken in different Japanese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking German vs Japanese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the German dialects include: Swiss German, Swabian German. Japanese dialects include: Sanuki , Hakata. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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German and Japanese Speaking population

German and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of German and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. 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 Japanese on German vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Japanese Language Codes

German and Japanese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. German and Japanese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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