Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
China, Mongolia
  
National Language
Germany
  
China, Mongolia
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
  
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
  
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.
  
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Turkish Language
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
  
Thank You
Danke
  
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
  
Please
bitte
  
Хэрэв (Kherev)
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
Баяртай (Bayartai)
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Khalkha Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Ordos Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Mongolia
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Khorchin Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
5.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
5.70 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
Not Available
  
Native Name
Deutsch
  
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Not Available
  
French Name
allemand
  
mongol
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Mongolisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Not Available
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
1224-1225
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Mongolic family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Mongolian
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Mongolian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
mn
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
mon
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
mon
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
mon
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
mong1331
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
part of 44-BAA-b
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available