Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
China
  
National Language
Germany
  
China
  
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
  
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
  
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
  
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.
  
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Uzbek Language
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Gokturk Language
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Uyghur-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Ässalamu läykum.
  
Thank You
Danke
  
rakhmat
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
Not Available
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
  
Please
bitte
  
birdam
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
kachurung
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
Khayr khosh
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
sizni yahshi kOrman
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
Kachurung
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Turpan
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Hotan
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Lop Nur
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
10.40 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
8.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
Not Available
  
Native Name
Deutsch
  
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
  
French Name
allemand
  
ouïgour
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Uigurisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Uyghur
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
11
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Uyghur
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
ug
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
uig
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
uig
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
uig
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
uigh1240
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available