1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Iraq, Kurdistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Germany
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
Not Available
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.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Farsi Language
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
Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
Tu çawa yî?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
guten Tag
Nee-wa-rowt bash
3.7 Good Morning
guten Morgen
Bayanit bash
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ich liebe dich
Ez te hez dikem
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Swiss German
Northern Kurdish
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Switzerland
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4,500,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Swabian German
Central Kurdish
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Germany
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
820,000.005,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Texas German
Southern Kurdish
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
6,000.003,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
229.00 million28.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
101.00 million21.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
128.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Deutsch
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6th Century AD
16th century CE
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Not Available
6.3.2 Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Kurdish
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed German
Not Available
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
kurd1259
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
Not Available