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Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
7
Germany
North Dakota, United States of America
Europe
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Council for German Orthography
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Albanian Languages
 
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26
10
9
Latin
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
6
30 weeks
 
hallo
Danke
Wie geht es dir?
gute Nacht
guten Abend
guten Tag
guten Morgen
bitte
Verzeihung
Tschüs
Ich liebe dich
Entschuldigung
 
Swiss German
Switzerland
4,500,000.00
Swabian German
Germany
820,000.00
Texas German
Texas
6,000.00
28
 
229.00 million
1.39 %
101.00 million
128.00 million
Deutsch
Deutsch, Tedesco
allemand
Deutsch
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Germans
 
6th Century AD
Indo-European Family
Germanic
Western
No early forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
9
Signed German
Individual
 
de
deu
ger
deu
deus
high1287, uppe1397
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Living
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Fusional, Synthetic
 
South Africa
1
South Africa
Namibia, South Africa
Africa
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
  • Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
  • Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
Dutch Language
Dutch Language
 
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15
17
Latin
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
3
24 weeks
 
hallo
Dankie
Hoe gaan dit
goeie nag
Goeienaand
Goeie middag
goeie more
asseblief
jammer
Totsiens
Ek het jou lief
Verskoon my
 
Kaapse Afrikaans
-
7,700,000.00
Oranjeriverafrikaans
-
7,700,000.00
Baster Afrikaans
Namibia
7.00
3
 
19.00 million
0.03 %
7.10 million
10.30 million
Afrikaans
Cape Dutch
afrikaans
Afrikaans
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Afrikaners
 
17th Century
Indo-European Family
Germanic
Western
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Afrikaans
23
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Individual
 
af
afr
afr
afr
afrs
afri1274
52-ACB-ba
Living
Subject-Object-Verb
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German and Afrikaans Alphabets

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

All German and Afrikaans 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 German and Afrikaans dialects. Various dialects of German and Afrikaans language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of German are spoken in different German Speaking Countries whereas Afrikaans Dialects are spoken in different Afrikaans speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking German vs Afrikaans varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the German dialects include: , . Afrikaans dialects include: , . Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

German and Afrikaans Speaking population

German and Afrikaans speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Afrikaans languages can be compared. The total count of German and Afrikaans Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is whereas the percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is . 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 German and Afrikaans on German vs Afrikaans where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Afrikaans Language Codes

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