Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
Philippines
  
National Language
Germany
  
Philippines
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Filipinos
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Australia
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
  
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
  
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 1593, "Doctrina Christiana" was first book written in two versions of Tagalog.
- The name "Tagalog" means "native to" and "river". "Tagalog"is derived from taga ilog, which means "inhabitants of the river".
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tagalog-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Baybayin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Kamusta
  
Thank You
Danke
  
Salamat po
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
Kamusta ka na?
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
Magandang gabi
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
Magandang gabi po
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
Magandang hapon po
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
Magandang umaga po
  
Please
bitte
  
pakiusap
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
pinagsisisihan
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
Paálam
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
Iniibig kita
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Batangas Tagalog
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Batangas, Gabon
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Bisalog
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Philippines
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Filipino
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Philippines
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
73.00 million
  
24
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
28.00 million
  
29
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
45.00 million
  
13
Native Name
Deutsch
  
Tagalog
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Filipino, Pilipino
  
French Name
allemand
  
tagalog
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Tagalog
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Tagalog people
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
1593
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Filipino
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
t1
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
tgl
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
tgl
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
tg1
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
taga1269
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
31-CKA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available