Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
Burkina Faso
  
National Language
Germany
  
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
  
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
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Dagbani Language
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Mossi-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Kia ora
  
Thank You
Danke
  
Laafi bala
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
Laafi beme ?
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
Ne y yungo
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
ne y zabre
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
Kia ora
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
Ne y yibeogo
  
Please
bitte
  
gafare
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
gafare
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
Wend na kon-d nindaare
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
Y gafare
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Ouapadoupou
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Burkina Faso
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Saremde
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Burkina Faso
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Taolende
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Burkina Faso
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
7.60 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
7.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
Not Available
  
Native Name
Deutsch
  
Mosse
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Not Available
  
French Name
allemand
  
moré
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Mossi-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Mossi
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
Not available
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Western Sudanic
  
Branch
Western
  
Gur (Voltaic)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Mossi
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
No data Available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
mos
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
mos
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
mos
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
moss1236
  
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
  
Not Available
  
German and Mossi Speaking population
German and Mossi speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Mossi languages can be compared. The total count of German and Mossi Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Mossi language is 0.11 %. 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 Mossi on German vs Mossi where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
German and Mossi Language Codes
German and Mossi language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. German and Mossi Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.