Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
National Language
Germany
  
Malaysia
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Thailand
  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
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.
  
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Indonesian Language
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Tamil Language
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Hai
  
Thank You
Danke
  
terima kasih
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
Apa khabar?
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
Selamat Petang
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
Selamat pagi
  
Please
bitte
  
sila
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
maaf
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
Saya sayang kamu
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
Maafkan saya
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Bengkulu
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Pekal
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Indonesia
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
175.00 million
  
10
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
98.00 million
  
8
Native Name
Deutsch
  
Bahasa melayu
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Not Available
  
French Name
allemand
  
malais
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Malaiisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Not Available
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
c. 683 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
ms
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
msa
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
may
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
zsm
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
stan1306
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
German and Malaysian Speaking population
German and Malaysian speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Malaysian languages can be compared. The total count of German and Malaysian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Malaysian language is 1.16 %. 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 Malaysian on German vs Malaysian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
German and Malaysian Language Codes
German and Malaysian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. German and Malaysian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.