1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Burma
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
Not Available
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.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Kinyarwanda Language
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
Not Available
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?
Urakomeye?
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
Not available
3.12 Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
Not available
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Swiss German
Rwanda-Rundi
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Switzerland
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4,500,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
820,000.00990,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
6,000.00153,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
229.00 million8.80 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
101.00 million8.80 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
128.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Germans
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Kirundi
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed German
Not Available
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
rund1242
7.6 Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available