Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
Philippines
  
National Language
Germany
  
Philippines
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Philippines
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
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
  
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
  
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.
  
- "Filipino" was officially declared as national language by the constitution in 1987.
- "Filipino" is the official name of Tagalog, or synonym of it.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Tagalog Language
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Spanish Language
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Filipino-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Kumusta
  
Thank You
Danke
  
Salamat
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
Kumusta
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
magandang gabi
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
Magandang gabi
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
Magandang hapon
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
Magandang umaga
  
Please
bitte
  
Mangyaring
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
pinagsisisihan
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
Paalam
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
Mahal kita
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
patawarin ninyo ako
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Bikol
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Philippines
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Hiligaynon
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Philippines
  
How Many People Speak
8,200,000.00
  
11
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Waray
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Philippines
  
How Many People Speak
2,600,000.00
  
13
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
90.00 million
  
17
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
45.00 million
  
23
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
45.00 million
  
13
Native Name
Deutsch
  
filipino
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Pilipino
  
French Name
allemand
  
filipino; pilipino
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Pilipino
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
[ˌfɪl.ɪˈpiː.no]
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Not Available
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
16th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Filipino
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
No Data Available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
fil
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
fil
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
fil
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
fili1244
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
No Data Available
  
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 Filipino 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 Filipino greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in German and Filipino language. German word for "Hello" is hallo or Filipino word for "Thank You" is Salamat. Find more of such common German Greetings and Filipino Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
German vs Filipino Difficulty
The German vs Filipino difficulty level basically depends on the number of German Alphabets and Filipino 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 Filipino are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Filipino, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Filipino time required is 44 weeks.