Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
Belarus, Poland
  
National Language
Germany
  
Belarus, Gambia
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Poland
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
  
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 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.
  
- Since 1918, Belarusian has been the official language of Belarus.
- Belarusian include many loanwords from Polish language.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Russian and Ukrainian
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Belarusian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
hallo
  
dobry dzień
  
Thank You
Danke
  
Dziakuj
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
Jak vy ?
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
Dabranač
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
Dobry viečar
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
dobry dzień
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
Dobraj ranicy
  
Please
bitte
  
Kali laska
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
Vybačajcie
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
da pabačennia
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
JA liubliu ciabie
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
Vybačajcie
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
North-Eastern Belarusian
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
North-East Belarus
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
South-Western Belarusian
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
South-West Belarus
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Middle Belarusian
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Middle Belarus
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
9.63 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
7.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
5.89 million
  
26
Native Name
Deutsch
  
Беларуская мова (Bielaruskaja mova)
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Belarusan, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian, White Ruthenian
  
French Name
allemand
  
biélorusse
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Weißrussisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Belarusians
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
18th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Western
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Belarusian
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
be
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
bel
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
bel
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
bel
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
bela1254
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
53-AAA-eb < 53-AAA-e (varieties: 53-AAA-eba to 53-AAA-ebg)
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
German and Belarusian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where German and Belarusian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in German and Belarusian language. German word for "Hello" is hallo or Belarusian word for "Thank You" is Dziakuj. Find more of such common German Greetings and Belarusian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
German vs Belarusian Difficulty
The German vs Belarusian difficulty level basically depends on the number of German Alphabets and Belarusian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare German and Belarusian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Belarusian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Belarusian time required is Not Available.