Countries
Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
75
0
46
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National Language
Germany
China, Taiwan
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
Albanian Languages
-
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2626
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1024
0
32
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How Many Consonants
923
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
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
hallo
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Danke
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
gute Nacht
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
guten Abend
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
guten Morgen
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
bitte
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Verzeihung
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Tschüs
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Swiss German
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Switzerland
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Swabian German
Wu
Where They Speak
Germany
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
820,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Texas German
Yue
Where They Speak
Texas
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
6,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
2810
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.39 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
101.00 million873.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
128.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Deutsch
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
allemand
chinois
German Name
Deutsch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Germans
Han
History
Origin
6th Century AD
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Germanic
-
Branch
Western
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Standard Chinese
Language Position
91
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed German
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
de
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
deu
zho
ISO 639 2/B
ger
chi
ISO 639 3
deu
zho
ISO 639 6
deus
zho
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
sini1245
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating