1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
Namibia, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.7 Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Dutch Language
1.10 Derived From
Albanian Languages
Dutch 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
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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?
Hoe gaan dit
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ich liebe dich
Ek het jou lief
3.12 Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
Verskoon my
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Swiss German
Kaapse Afrikaans
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Switzerland
Not Available
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Swabian German
Oranjeriverafrikaans
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
820,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Texas German
Baster Afrikaans
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 million19.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
101.00 million7.10 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
128.00 million10.30 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Cape Dutch
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6th Century AD
17th Century
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Standard Afrikaans
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed German
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
6.4 Scope
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
afri1274
7.6 Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
52-ACB-ba
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic