German

Basque

German and Basque

German

Basque

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Countries

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre

Total No. Of Countries

0 46

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National Language

Germany

France, Spain

Second Language

North Dakota, United States of America

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe

Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Council for German Orthography

Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee

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.

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

Similar To

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Spanish

Derived From

Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2627

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

105

0 32

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How Many Consonants

921

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks88 weeks

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

hallo

Kaixo

Thank You

Danke

Eskerrik asko

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?

Zer moduz?

Good Night

gute Nacht

Gabon

Good Evening

guten Abend

Arratsalde on

Good Afternoon

guten Tag

Arratsalde on

Good Morning

guten Morgen

Egun on

Please

bitte

Mesedez

Sorry

Verzeihung

Barkatu

Bye

Tschüs

Agur

I Love You

Ich liebe dich

Maite zaitut

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung

Barkatu

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German

Navarro-Lapurdian

Where They Speak

Switzerland

France

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.0068,000.00

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Swabian German

Souletin

Where They Speak

Germany

France, Soule, Spain

How Many People Speak

820,000.008,700.00

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Texas German

Biscayan

Where They Speak

Texas

Spain

How Many People Speak

6,000.00750,000.00

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

286

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

229.00 million7.20 million

0 1200

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Speaking Population

1.39 %0.12 %

0 89

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Native Speakers

101.00 million7.20 million

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million0.70 million

0.01 400

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Native Name

Deutsch

Euskara

Alternative Names

Deutsch, Tedesco

Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense

French Name

allemand

basque

German Name

Deutsch

Baskisch

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

[bɑːsk]

Ethnicity

Germans

Basque people

History

Origin

6th Century AD

c. 1000

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Vasconic Family

Subgroup

Germanic

Branch

Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Proto-Basque, Aquitanian

Standard Forms

German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Basque

Language Position

930

1 120

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Signed Forms

Signed German

Basque Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu

eus

ISO 639 2/B

ger

baq

ISO 639 3

deu

eus

ISO 639 6

deus

eus

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397

basq1248

Linguasphere

52-ACB–dl & -dm

40-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic

Agglutinative

German and Basque Alphabets

German and Basque Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in German and Basque. In German Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Basque Alphabets there are 27 letters. To learn German and Basque languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of German and Basque 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 greetings vs Basque greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether German and Basque are Most Spoken Languages.

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

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German and Basque Speaking population

German and Basque speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Basque languages can be compared. The total count of German and Basque Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Basque language is 0.12 %. 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 Basque on German vs Basque where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Basque Language Codes

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