Countries
Japan
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
National Language
Japan
Germany
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Europe
Minority Language
Palau
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Council for German Orthography
Interesting Facts
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
Similar To
Korean Language
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Albanian Languages
Alphabets in
Japanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
hallo
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
Danke
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Wie geht es dir?
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
gute Nacht
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
guten Abend
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
guten Tag
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
guten Morgen
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
bitte
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Verzeihung
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
Tschüs
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Ich liebe dich
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
Entschuldigung
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Swiss German
Where They Speak
Kagawa
Switzerland
Dialect 2
Hakata
Swabian German
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Germany
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Kansai
Texas German
Where They Speak
kansai
Texas
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Alternative Names
Not Available
Deutsch, Tedesco
French Name
japonais
allemand
German Name
Japanisch
Deutsch
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Germans
Origin
1185
6th Century AD
Language Family
Japonic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Germanic
Branch
Not Available
Western
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Japanese
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Signed German
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
deus
Glottocode
nucl1643
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Japanese and German 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 Japanese and German greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Japanese and German language. Japanese word for "Hello" is こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa) or German word for "Thank You" is Danke. Find more of such common Japanese Greetings and German Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Japanese vs German Difficulty
The Japanese vs German difficulty level basically depends on the number of Japanese Alphabets and German 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 Japanese and German are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Japanese and German, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Japanese is 88 weeks while to learn German time required is 30 weeks.