Countries
Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
Total No. Of Countries
7
8
5
10
National Language
Germany
North Korea, South Korea
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
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
The National Institute of the Korean Language
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.
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Chinese and Japanese languages
Derived From
Albanian Languages
Not Available
Alphabets
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
Korean-Alphabets.jpg#200
Alphabets
26
8
40
21
Phonology
How Many Vowels
10
7
21
18
How Many Consonants
9
1
19
9
Scripts
Latin
Hangul
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
6
5
3
2
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks
9
88 weeks
13
Greetings
Hello
hallo
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
Thank You
Danke
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
Good Night
gute Nacht
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
Good Evening
guten Abend
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
Good Morning
guten Morgen
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
Please
bitte
하십시오 (hasibsio)
Sorry
Verzeihung
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
Bye
Tschüs
안녕 (annyeong)
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Swiss German
Jeju
Where They Speak
Switzerland
South Korea
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
18
10,000.00
99+
Dialect 2
Swabian German
Gyeongsang
Where They Speak
Germany
South Korea
How Many People Speak
820,000.00
26
10,000,000.00
9
Dialect 3
Texas German
Hamgyŏng
Where They Speak
Texas
China, North Korea
How Many People Speak
6,000.00
35
Not Available
Total No. Of Dialects
28
23
12
12
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
8
77.00 million
22
Speaking Population
1.39 %
12
1.14 %
16
Native Speakers
101.00 million
10
77.00 million
12
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
5
Not Available
Native Name
Deutsch
한국어 (조선말)
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
French Name
allemand
coréen
German Name
Deutsch
Koreanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Germans
Koreans
History
Origin
6th Century AD
Before 1st century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Koreanic Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Not Available
Branch
Western
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
Language Position
9
9
12
11
Signed Forms
Signed German
Korean Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
de
ko
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
deu
kor
ISO 639 2/B
ger
kor
ISO 639 3
deu
Kor
ISO 639 6
deus
Not Available
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
kore1280
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
45-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative
