1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
Afganistan
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
1.7 Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1.8 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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Albanian Languages
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
hallo
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
3.4 Good Night
gute Nacht
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
3.5 Good Evening
guten Abend
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
3.6 Good Afternoon
guten Tag
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
3.7 Good Morning
guten Morgen
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
3.8 Please
bitte
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
3.9 Sorry
Verzeihung
Извините(Izvinite)
3.10 Bye
Tschüs
до свидания(do svidaniya)
3.11 I Love You
Ich liebe dich
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
3.12 Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
извините(izvinite)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Swiss German
Doukhobor Russian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Switzerland
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4,500,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
820,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
229.00 million276.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
101.00 million166.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
128.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
6.3.2 Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Standard Russian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed German
Signed Russian
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
russ1263
7.6 Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
53-AAA-ea
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic