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Czech vs German


Countries

Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland   
Czech Republic, European Union   

Total No. Of Countries
7   
8
2   
13

National Language
Germany   
Czech Republic   

Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Europe   
Europe   

Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia   
Austria, Croatia, Germany, Slovakia   

Regulated By
Council for German Orthography   
Institute of the Czech Language   

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.
  
  • The Czech language was known as Bohemian as early at 19th century.
  • In czech language, there are many words that do not contain vowels.
  

Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages   
Polish, Slovak and Sorbian   

Derived From
Albanian Languages   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Czech-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
26   
8
42   
22

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10   
7
32   
21

How Many Consonants
9   
1
32   
22

Scripts
Latin   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
5   
4

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks   
9
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
hallo   
ahoj   

Thank You
Danke   
děkuji   

How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?   
Jak se máš?   

Good Night
gute Nacht   
dobrou noc   

Good Evening
guten Abend   
dobrý večer   

Good Afternoon
guten Tag   
dobré odpoledne   

Good Morning
guten Morgen   
dobré ráno   

Please
bitte   
prosím   

Sorry
Verzeihung   
litovat   

Bye
Tschüs   
sbohem   

I Love You
Ich liebe dich   
Miluji tě   

Excuse Me
Entschuldigung   
promiňte   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Swiss German   
Chod   

Where They Speak
Switzerland   
Chodsko, Bohemia   

How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00   
18
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Swabian German   
Lach   

Where They Speak
Germany   
Czech Silesia, Hlucin, Northeast Moravia   

How Many People Speak
820,000.00   
26
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Texas German   
Moravian   

Where They Speak
Texas   
Czech Republic, Czech Silesia, Moravia, Slovakia   

How Many People Speak
6,000.00   
35
108,000.00   
27

Total No. Of Dialects
28   
23
13   
13

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
229.00 million   
8
11.00 million   
99+

Speaking Population
1.39 %   
12
0.15 %   
99+

Native Speakers
101.00 million   
10
11.00 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
128.00 million   
5
Not Available   

Native Name
Deutsch   
čeština / český jazyk   

Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco   
Bohemian, Cestina   

French Name
allemand   
tchèque   

German Name
Deutsch   
Tschechisch   

Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Germans   
Czechs   

History

Origin
6th Century AD   
9th Century   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Germanic   
Slavic   

Branch
Western   
Western   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Proto-Czech, Old Czech   

Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German   
Standard Czech   

Language Position
9   
9
73   
99+

Signed Forms
Signed German   
Czech Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
de   
cs   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
deu   
ces   

ISO 639 2/B
ger   
cze   

ISO 639 3
deu   
ces   

ISO 639 6
deus   
Not Available   

Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397   
czec1258   

Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm   
53-AAA-da   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic   
Fusional, Synthetic   

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German and Czech Language History

Comparison of German vs Czech language history gives us differences between origin of German and Czech language. History of German language states that this language originated in 6th Century AD whereas history of Czech language states that this language originated in 9th Century. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on German and Czech Language History.

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German and Czech 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 Czech greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in German and Czech language. German word for "Hello" is hallo or Czech word for "Thank You" is děkuji. Find more of such common German Greetings and Czech Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

German vs Czech Difficulty

The German vs Czech difficulty level basically depends on the number of German Alphabets and Czech 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 Czech are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Czech, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Czech time required is 44 weeks.

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