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Countries

Countries

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Hong Kong, Macau

Total No. Of Countries

72
0 46
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National Language

Germany
China, Guangdong

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia

Minority Language

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

Regulated By

Council for German Orthography
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division

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.
  • Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
  • Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.

Similar To

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Chinese Language

Derived From

Albanian Languages
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2628
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

108
0 32
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How Many Consonants

920
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

610
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
您好

Thank You

Danke
谢谢

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?
你好吗?

Good Night

gute Nacht
晚安

Good Evening

guten Abend
晚上好

Good Afternoon

guten Tag
下午好

Good Morning

guten Morgen
早上好

Please

bitte

Sorry

Verzeihung
遗憾

Bye

Tschüs
再见

I Love You

Ich liebe dich
我爱你

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung
原谅我

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German
Guangzhou

Where They Speak

Switzerland
outside mainland China

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Swabian German
Xiguan

Where They Speak

Germany
Hong Kong

How Many People Speak

820,000.0071,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Texas German
Hong Kong

Where They Speak

Texas
Hong Kong

How Many People Speak

6,000.0070,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

283
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

229.00 million60.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.39 %16.00 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

101.00 million52.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million71.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Deutsch
Kwang Tung Wa

Alternative Names

Deutsch, Tedesco
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese

French Name

allemand
cantonais

German Name

Deutsch
Kantonesisch

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]

Ethnicity

Germans
Han Chinese

History

Origin

6th Century AD
17th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

Germanic
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Branch

Western
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Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Standard Cantonese

Language Position

91
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed German
Signed Cantonese

Scope

Individual
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Code

ISO 639 1

de
No data available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu
yue

ISO 639 2/B

ger
yue

ISO 639 3

deu
No data available

ISO 639 6

deus
yue

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397
cant1236

Linguasphere

52-ACB–dl & -dm
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
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Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
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German and Cantonese Alphabets

German and Cantonese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in German and Cantonese. In German Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Cantonese Alphabets there are 28 letters. To learn German and Cantonese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of German and Cantonese 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 Cantonese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether German and Cantonese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

German and Cantonese Speaking population

German and Cantonese speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Cantonese languages can be compared. The total count of German and Cantonese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 %. 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 Cantonese on German vs Cantonese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Cantonese Language Codes

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