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Countries

Countries

Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

27
0 46
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National Language

France, Spain
Germany

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
Council for German Orthography

Interesting Facts

  • The Basque language is the oldest European language.
  • Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
  • 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

Spanish
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Derived From

-
Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2726
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

510
0 32
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How Many Consonants

219
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

36
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Kaixo
hallo

Thank You

Eskerrik asko
Danke

How Are You?

Zer moduz?
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

Gabon
gute Nacht

Good Evening

Arratsalde on
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

Arratsalde on
guten Tag

Good Morning

Egun on
guten Morgen

Please

Mesedez
bitte

Sorry

Barkatu
Verzeihung

Bye

Agur
Tschüs

I Love You

Maite zaitut
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

Barkatu
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Navarro-Lapurdian
Swiss German

Where They Speak

France
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

68,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Souletin
Swabian German

Where They Speak

France, Soule, Spain
Germany

How Many People Speak

8,700.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Biscayan
Texas German

Where They Speak

Spain
Texas

How Many People Speak

750,000.006,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

628
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

7.20 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.12 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

7.20 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.70 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Euskara
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

basque
allemand

German Name

Baskisch
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[bɑːsk]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Basque people
Germans

History

Origin

c. 1000
6th Century AD

Language Family

Vasconic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Germanic

Branch

-
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
No early forms

Standard Forms

Basque
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

309
1 120
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Signed Forms

Basque Sign Language
Signed German

Scope

-
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

eu
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

eus
deu

ISO 639 2/B

baq
ger

ISO 639 3

eus
deu

ISO 639 6

eus
deus

Glottocode

basq1248
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

40-AAA-a
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

-
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic

Basque and German Alphabets

Basque and German Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Basque and German. In Basque Alphabets there are 27 letters while in German Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Basque and German languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Basque and German languages. The Basque phonology consist Basque vowels and Basque consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Basque greetings vs German greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Basque and German are Most Spoken Languages.

All Basque and German Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Basque and German dialects. Various dialects of Basque and German language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Basque are spoken in different Basque Speaking Countries whereas German Dialects are spoken in different German speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Basque vs German Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Basque dialects include: Navarro-Lapurdian, Souletin. German dialects include: Swiss German , Swabian German. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Basque and German Speaking population

Basque and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Basque and German languages can be compared. The total count of Basque and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Basque language is 0.12 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Basque and German on Basque vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Basque and German Language Codes

Basque and German language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Basque and German Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.