Countries
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
National Language
North Korea, South Korea
Germany
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Regulated By
The National Institute of the Korean Language
Council for German Orthography
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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
Chinese and Japanese languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Albanian Languages
Alphabets in
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German-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
hallo
Thank You
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
Danke
How Are You?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
Wie geht es dir?
Good Night
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
gute Nacht
Good Evening
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
guten Abend
Good Afternoon
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
guten Tag
Good Morning
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
guten Morgen
Please
하십시오 (hasibsio)
bitte
Sorry
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
Verzeihung
I Love You
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
Ich liebe dich
Excuse Me
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
Entschuldigung
Dialect 1
Jeju
Swiss German
Where They Speak
South Korea
Switzerland
Dialect 2
Gyeongsang
Swabian German
Where They Speak
South Korea
Germany
Dialect 3
Hamgyŏng
Texas German
Where They Speak
China, North Korea
Texas
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
한국어 (조선말)
Deutsch
Alternative Names
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
Deutsch, Tedesco
French Name
coréen
allemand
German Name
Koreanisch
Deutsch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Ethnicity
Koreans
Germans
Origin
Before 1st century
6th Century AD
Language Family
Koreanic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Germanic
Branch
Not Available
Western
Early Forms
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
No early forms
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Signed Forms
Korean Sign Language
Signed German
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
deus
Glottocode
kore1280
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
45-AAA
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic
Korean 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 Korean and German greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Korean and German language. Korean word for "Hello" is 안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.) or German word for "Thank You" is Danke. Find more of such common Korean Greetings and German Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Korean vs German Difficulty
The Korean vs German difficulty level basically depends on the number of Korean 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 Korean and German are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Korean and German, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Korean is 88 weeks while to learn German time required is 30 weeks.