1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
European Union, Slovenia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Germany
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
1.4 Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Austria, Hungary, Italy
1.7 Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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.
- The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Serbo-Croatian
1.10 Derived From
Albanian Languages
Not Available
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
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
Kako se imate?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Swiss German
Prekmurje Slovene
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Switzerland
Hungary, Slovenia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4,500,000.0080,000.00
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 million2.50 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
101.00 million2.50 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
128.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Slovenian, Slovenscina
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Slovene
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed German
Not Available
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
slov1268
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional