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Countries

Countries

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia

Total No. Of Countries

79
0 46
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National Language

Germany
Austria

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

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

Regulated By

Council for German Orthography
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

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.
  • In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
  • Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.

Similar To

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Serbain and Bosnian

Derived From

Albanian Languages
Church Slavonic

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2630
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

105
0 32
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How Many Consonants

925
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

63
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
bok

Thank You

Danke
hvala

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?
kako si

Good Night

gute Nacht
laku noć

Good Evening

guten Abend
dobra večer

Good Afternoon

guten Tag
dobar dan

Good Morning

guten Morgen
dobro jutro

Please

bitte
molim

Sorry

Verzeihung
Oprostite

Bye

Tschüs
Doviđenja

I Love You

Ich liebe dich
Volim te

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung
Ispričavam se

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German
Chakavian

Where They Speak

Switzerland
Croatia

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.00660,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Swabian German
Chakavian

Where They Speak

Germany
Croatia

How Many People Speak

820,000.005,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Texas German
Shtokavian

Where They Speak

Texas
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania

How Many People Speak

6,000.0013,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2879
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

229.00 million89.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.39 %89.00 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

101.00 million5.60 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million1.25 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Deutsch
hrvatski

Alternative Names

Deutsch, Tedesco
Hrvatski

French Name

allemand
croate

German Name

Deutsch
Kroatisch

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]

Ethnicity

Germans
Croats

History

Origin

6th Century AD
9th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European 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
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian

Language Position

923
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed German
Croatian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

de
hr

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu
hrv

ISO 639 2/B

ger
hrv

ISO 639 3

deu
hrv

ISO 639 6

deus
hrv

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397
croa1245

Linguasphere

52-ACB–dl & -dm
part of 53-AAA-g

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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

Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

German and Croatian Alphabets

German and Croatian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in German and Croatian. In German Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Croatian Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn German and Croatian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of German and Croatian 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 Croatian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether German and Croatian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

German and Croatian Speaking population

German and Croatian speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Croatian languages can be compared. The total count of German and Croatian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 %. 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 Croatian on German vs Croatian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Croatian Language Codes

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