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Countries

Countries

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

733
0 46
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National Language

Germany
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America

Second Language

North Dakota, United States of America
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore

Speaking Continents

Europe
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America

Minority Language

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

Regulated By

Council for German Orthography
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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.
  • Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
  • English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.

Similar To

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German Languages

Derived From

Albanian Languages
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2626
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
Latin

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

67
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks6 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
Hello

Thank You

Danke
Thank you

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?
How are you?

Good Night

gute Nacht
Good Night

Good Evening

guten Abend
Good Evening

Good Afternoon

guten Tag
Good Afternoon

Good Morning

guten Morgen
Good Morning

Please

bitte
Please

Sorry

Verzeihung
Sorry

Bye

Tschüs
Bye

I Love You

Ich liebe dich
I love you

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung
Excuse Me

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German
American English

Where They Speak

Switzerland
United States of America

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.00225,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Swabian German
Hiberno-English

Where They Speak

Germany
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

820,000.004,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Texas German
Welsh English

Where They Speak

Texas
United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

6,000.002,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

28188
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

229.00 million1,200.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.39 %5.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

101.00 million400.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million400.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Deutsch
English

Alternative Names

Deutsch, Tedesco
English

French Name

allemand
anglais

German Name

Deutsch
Englisch

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/

Ethnicity

Germans
English people

History

Origin

6th Century AD
5th Century AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Germanic
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Branch

Western
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Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English

Standard Forms

German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Standard English

Language Position

93
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed German
Signed English

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

de
en

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu
eng

ISO 639 2/B

ger
eng

ISO 639 3

deu
eng

ISO 639 6

deus
engs

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397
stan1293

Linguasphere

52-ACB–dl & -dm
52-ABA

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, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic

German and English Alphabets

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

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

German and English Speaking population

German and English speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and English languages can be compared. The total count of German and English Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking English language is 5.43 %. 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 English on German vs English where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and English Language Codes

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