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Countries

Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland  
Indonesia  

Total No. Of Countries
7  
8
1  
14

National Language
Germany  
Indonesia  

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

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia  
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname  

Regulated By
Council for German Orthography  
Not Available  

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 Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
  • The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
  

Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages  
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages  

Derived From
Albanian Languages  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
26  
8
27  
9

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10  
7
6  
3

How Many Consonants
9  
1
21  
11

Scripts
Latin  
Arabic, Javanese, Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks  
9
36 weeks  
10

Greetings

Hello
hallo  
Halo  

Thank You
Danke  
matur nuwun  

How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?  
piye kabare?  

Good Night
gute Nacht  
wengi sing apik  

Good Evening
guten Abend  
Sugeng sọnten  

Good Afternoon
guten Tag  
Sugeng siang  

Good Morning
guten Morgen  
Sugeng énjing  

Please
bitte  
Not Available  

Sorry
Verzeihung  
Nyuwun pangapunten  

Bye
Tschüs  
Kepanggih malih benjang  

I Love You
Ich liebe dich  
Kula tresna panjengan  

Excuse Me
Entschuldigung  
Nuwun séwu  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Swiss German  
Pekalongan  

Where They Speak
Switzerland  
Indonesia  

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

Dialect 2
Swabian German  
Cirebon  

Where They Speak
Germany  
Indonesia  

How Many People Speak
820,000.00  
26
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Texas German  
Arekan  

Where They Speak
Texas  
Indonesia  

How Many People Speak
6,000.00  
35
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
28  
23
16  
15

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
229.00 million  
8
82.00 million  
19

Speaking Population
1.39 %  
12
1.25 %  
13

Native Speakers
101.00 million  
10
76.00 million  
13

Second Language Speakers
128.00 million  
5
Not Available  

Native Name
Deutsch  
basa Jawa  

Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco  
Djawa, Jawa  

French Name
allemand  
javanais  

German Name
Deutsch  
Javanisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
Germans  
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)  

History

Origin
6th Century AD  
450 AD  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Austronesian Family  

Subgroup
Germanic  
Indonesian  

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  
Javanese  

Language Position
9  
9
11  
10

Signed Forms
Signed German  
Not Available  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
de  
jv  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
deu  
jav  

ISO 639 2/B
ger  
jav  

ISO 639 3
deu  
jav  

ISO 639 6
deus  
Not Available  

Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397  
java1253  

Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Agglutinative  

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German and Javanese Language History

Comparison of German vs Javanese language history gives us differences between origin of German and Javanese language. History of German language states that this language originated in 6th Century AD whereas history of Javanese language states that this language originated in 450 AD. 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 Javanese Language History.

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

German vs Javanese Difficulty

The German vs Javanese difficulty level basically depends on the number of German Alphabets and Javanese 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 Javanese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Javanese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Javanese time required is 36 weeks.

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