1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Germany
North Korea, South Korea
1.4 Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
The National Institute of the Korean Language
1.8 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.
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Chinese and Japanese languages
1.10 Derived From
Albanian Languages
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
hallo
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
3.2 Thank You
Danke
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
3.3 How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
3.4 Good Night
gute Nacht
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
3.5 Good Evening
guten Abend
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
3.6 Good Afternoon
guten Tag
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
3.7 Good Morning
guten Morgen
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
Verzeihung
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ich liebe dich
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
3.12 Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4,500,000.0010,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Swabian German
Gyeongsang
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
820,000.0010,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
229.00 million77.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
101.00 million77.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
128.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6th Century AD
Before 1st century
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Koreanic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
6.3.2 Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed German
Korean Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
kore1280
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative