1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Benin, Nigeria
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
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
Yoruba Academy
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.
- One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Owo and Itsekiri languages
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?
Bawo ni o se wa
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
mo nifẹ rẹ
3.12 Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
mo tọrọ gafara
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
820,000.00800,000.00
700
80000000
1.3 Dialect 3
1.3.1 Where They Speak
1.3.2 How Many People Speak
6,000.0010,000.00
1400
96000000
1.12 Total No. Of Dialects
2 How Many People Speak
2.1 How Many People Speak?
229.00 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
2.2 Speaking Population
2.3 Native Speakers
101.00 million28.00 million
0.13
873
2.3.1 Second Language Speakers
128.00 millionNA
0.01
400
2.3.2 Native Name
2.3.3 Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Yariba, Yooba
2.3.4 French Name
2.3.5 German Name
2.4 Pronunciation
2.5 Ethnicity
3 History
3.1 Origin
3.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
3.2.1 Subgroup
3.2.2 Branch
3.3 Language Forms
3.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
3.3.2 Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Yorùbá
3.3.3 Language Position
3.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed German
Yoruba Sign Language
3.4 Scope
4 Code
4.1 ISO 639 1
4.2 ISO 639 2
4.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
4.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
4.3 ISO 639 3
4.4 ISO 639 6
4.5 Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
yoru1245
4.6 Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
No data available
4.7 Types of Language
4.7.1 Language Type
4.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
4.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating