Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
Thailand
  
National Language
Germany
  
Thailand
  
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
  
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
  
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
  
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.
  
- Thai is tonal language and also it is very repetitive and exaggerative language.
- You should learn thai language with native speakers and not with books or recorders, since speaking and writing in thai are not the same.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Lao Language
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Khmer Language
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Thai-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Thai
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
  
Thank You
Danke
  
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
  
Please
bitte
  
โปรด (Pord)
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Isan
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Isan
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
20,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Northern Thai
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Northern Thailand
  
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00
  
13
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Southern Thai
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
8
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
60.00 million
  
27
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
20.00 million
  
37
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
40.00 million
  
15
Native Name
Deutsch
  
ภาษาไทย
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
  
French Name
allemand
  
thaï
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Thailändisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
1283 CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Tai-Kadai Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Tai
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Thai
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Thai
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Thai Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
th
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
tha
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
tha
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
tha
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
thai1261
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
47-AAA-b
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
German and Thai 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 Thai greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in German and Thai language. German word for "Hello" is hallo or Thai word for "Thank You" is ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ). Find more of such common German Greetings and Thai Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
German vs Thai Difficulty
The German vs Thai difficulty level basically depends on the number of German Alphabets and Thai 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 Thai are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Thai, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Thai time required is 44 weeks.