Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Japan
National Language
Germany
Japan
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Palau
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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.
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Korean Language
Derived From
Albanian Languages
Not Available
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
Japanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hello
hallo
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
Danke
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
gute Nacht
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
guten Abend
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
guten Morgen
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
bitte
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
Verzeihung
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
Tschüs
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Swiss German
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Switzerland
Kagawa
Dialect 2
Swabian German
Hakata
Where They Speak
Germany
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Texas German
Kansai
Where They Speak
Texas
kansai
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Not Available
French Name
allemand
japonais
German Name
Deutsch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Germans
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
6th Century AD
1185
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Not Available
Branch
Western
Not Available
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Japanese
Signed Forms
Signed German
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
deus
Not Available
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
nucl1643
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
45-CAA-a
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic
German and Japanese 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 Japanese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in German and Japanese language. German word for "Hello" is hallo or Japanese word for "Thank You" is ありがとう (Arigatō). Find more of such common German Greetings and Japanese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
German vs Japanese Difficulty
The German vs Japanese difficulty level basically depends on the number of German Alphabets and Japanese 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 Japanese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Japanese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Japanese time required is 88 weeks.