Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
Macedonia
  
National Language
Germany
  
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Albania, Romania, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
  
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
  
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.
  
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
Danke
  
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
Добар ден (Dobar den)
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
bitte
  
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
жал (žal)
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
Чао (Čao)
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
Те сакам (Te sakam)
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Debar
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Macedonia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Galičnik
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Macedonia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
2.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
2.50 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
Not Available
  
Native Name
Deutsch
  
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
  
French Name
allemand
  
macédonien
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Makedonisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Macedonians
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
2200 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Western
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Macedonian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Macedonian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
mk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
mkd
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
mac
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
mkd
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
mace1250
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
53-AAA-ha
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Analytic