1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Germany
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
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.
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
1.10 Derived From
Albanian Languages
Arabic Language
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
Not Available
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?
Habari gani?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
guten Abend
Habari za jioni
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
guten Morgen
Habari za asubuhi
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Switzerland
Zanzibar island
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00NA
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 million150.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
101.00 million15.00 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
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Germans
Swahili people or Waswahili
6 History
6.1 Origin
6th Century AD
6th century
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo 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
Swahili
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed German
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
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
swah1254
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
Not Available