Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine
  
National Language
Germany
  
Moldova, Romania
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Kazakhstan, Russia
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
  
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li
  
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.
  
- Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
- The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Romanian.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
alo
  
Thank You
Danke
  
multumesc
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
ce mai faci?
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
noapte Buna
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
buna Seara
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
buna Ziua
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
bună Dimineața
  
Please
bitte
  
Vă Rog
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
scuze
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
La revedere
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
Te iubesc
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
Scuza-Ma
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Aromanian
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Megleno-Romanian
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Istro-Romanian
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
28.00 million
  
38
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
24.00 million
  
33
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
4.00 million
  
30
Native Name
Deutsch
  
Română
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian
  
French Name
allemand
  
roumain; moldave
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Rumänisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
[roˈmɨnə]
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Romanians
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
1521
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Romanian
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Romanian
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Romanian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
ro
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
ron
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
rum
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
ron
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
roma1327
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
51-AAD-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Synthetic