Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
East Asia, European Union, South America
  
National Language
Germany
  
East Asia, European Union
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe, South America
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
  
Akademio de Esperanto
  
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 most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
- Esperanto is an artificial international language.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Esperanto-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Halo
  
Thank You
Danke
  
Dankon
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
Kiel vi sanas?
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
Bonan nokton
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
Bonan vesperon
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
Bonan posttagmezon
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
Bonan matenon
  
Please
bitte
  
Mi petas
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
Mi bedaŭras!
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
Ĝis poste
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
Mi amas vin
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
Pardonu!
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Not present
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Not present
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Not present
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Total No. Of Dialects
0
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
2.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
0.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
Deutsch
  
Esperanto
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia
  
French Name
allemand
  
espéranto
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Esperanto
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
[espeˈranto]
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Not Available
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
1887
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Esperanto
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Esperanto
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Signuno
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
eo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
epo
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
epo
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
epo
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
espe1235
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
51-AAB-da
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Constructed
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
German and Esperanto 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 Esperanto greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in German and Esperanto language. German word for "Hello" is hallo or Esperanto word for "Thank You" is Dankon. Find more of such common German Greetings and Esperanto Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
German vs Esperanto Difficulty
The German vs Esperanto difficulty level basically depends on the number of German Alphabets and Esperanto 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 Esperanto are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Esperanto, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Esperanto time required is 6 weeks.