Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
West Java
  
National Language
Germany
  
Indonesia
  
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.
  
- The Sundanese language is second most widely spoken regional language in Indonesia.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Madurese and Malay Languages
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sundanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Alphabets
Not Available
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin, Sundanese
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
hallo
  
Halo
  
Thank You
Danke
  
Nuhun
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
Kumaha kabarna?
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
Wilujeng kulem
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
Wilujeng wengi
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
Wilujeng siang
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
Wilujeng énjing
  
Please
bitte
  
Mangga
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
Hapunten
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
Wilujeng angkat
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
Abdi bogoh ka anjeun
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
Punten
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Western dialect
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Banten
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Northern dialect
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Bogor
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Priangan dialect
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Bandung
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
39.00 million
  
32
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
38.00 million
  
26
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
Not Available
  
Native Name
Deutsch
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Priangan, Sunda
  
French Name
allemand
  
soundanais
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Sundanesisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Sundanese, Bantenese, Cirebonese, Badui
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
5th century AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Sundanese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
su
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
sun
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
sun
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
sun
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
sund1251
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available