1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Germany
1.4 Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
1.5 Speaking Continents
Europe
1.6 Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
1.7 Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
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.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
1.10 Derived From
Albanian Languages
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
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks
Rank: 9 (Overall) ▶
3
88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
hallo
3.2 Thank You
Danke
3.3 How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
3.4 Good Night
gute Nacht
3.5 Good Evening
guten Abend
3.6 Good Afternoon
guten Tag
3.7 Good Morning
guten Morgen
3.8 Please
bitte
3.9 Sorry
Verzeihung
3.10 Bye
Tschüs
3.11 I Love You
Ich liebe dich
3.12 Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Swiss German
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Switzerland
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
Rank: 18 (Overall) ▶
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Swabian German
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Germany
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
820,000.00
Rank: 26 (Overall) ▶
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Texas German
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Texas
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
6,000.00
Rank: 35 (Overall) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
Rank: 8 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
1.39 %
Rank: 12 (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
101.00 million
Rank: 10 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
Rank: 5 (Overall) ▶
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Deutsch
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
5.3.4 French Name
allemand
5.3.5 German Name
Deutsch
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
5.5 Ethnicity
Germans
6 History
6.1 Origin
6th Century AD
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Germanic
6.2.2 Branch
Western
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed German
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
de
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
deu
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
ger
7.3 ISO 639 3
deu
7.4 ISO 639 6
deus
7.5 Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
7.6 Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic