1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Germany
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
1.4 Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
France, Germany, Indonesia
1.7 Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
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.
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
German and English Languages
1.10 Derived From
Albanian Languages
Not Available
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 gaat het met je?
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
Ik hou van jou
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00590,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Germany
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
820,000.004,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Texas
Belgium, Netherlands
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
6,000.001,300,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
229.00 million28.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
101.00 million22.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
128.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Hollands, Nederlands
5.3.4 French Name
allemand
néerlandais; flamand
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6th Century AD
AD 450-500
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
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Standard Dutch
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed German
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
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
mode1257
7.6 Linguasphere
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
Synthetic