Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Myanmar
Total No. Of Countries
71
0
46
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National Language
Germany
Myanmar
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Mon
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
Myanmar Language Commission
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 naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Thai Language
Derived From
Albanian Languages
Pali Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2633
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1012
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
933
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tangut
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Thank You
Danke
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Good Night
gute Nacht
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Evening
guten Abend
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Morning
guten Morgen
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Please
bitte
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sorry
Verzeihung
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bye
Tschüs
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Dialect 1
Swiss German
Arakanese
Where They Speak
Switzerland
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Swabian German
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
Germany
Myanmar
How Many People Speak
820,000.00440,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Texas German
Intha
Where They Speak
Texas
Burma
How Many People Speak
6,000.0090,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
285
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million43.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.39 %0.50 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
101.00 million33.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Deutsch
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
French Name
allemand
birman
German Name
Deutsch
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[bəmɛ̀]
Ethnicity
Germans
Bamar people
Origin
6th Century AD
1113 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Western
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Modern Burmese
Language Position
943
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed German
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
de
my
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
deu
mya
ISO 639 2/B
ger
bur
ISO 639 3
deu
mya
ISO 639 6
deus
mya
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
sout3159
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating