Countries
Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
Total No. Of Countries
732
0
46
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National Language
Germany
France
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
Africa, Canada
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
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.
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Italian Language
Derived From
Albanian Languages
Latin
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2626
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
106
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
920
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
hallo
bonjour
Thank You
Danke
Merci
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
Comment allez-vous?
Good Night
gute Nacht
bonne Nuit
Good Evening
guten Abend
bonsoir
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
bon Après-Midi
Good Morning
guten Morgen
Bonjour
Please
bitte
S'il vous plaît
Sorry
Verzeihung
désolé
Bye
Tschüs
au revoir
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
Je t'aime
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
Excuse Moi
Dialects
Dialect 1
Swiss German
Quebec French
Where They Speak
Switzerland
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.006,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Swabian German
African French
Where They Speak
Germany
Africa
How Many People Speak
820,000.00274,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Texas German
Swiss French
Where They Speak
Texas
Northeast France, Switzerland
How Many People Speak
6,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2825
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million163.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.39 %1.12 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
101.00 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million87.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Deutsch
français
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Français
French Name
allemand
français
German Name
Deutsch
Französisch
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
Ethnicity
Germans
French people
History
Origin
6th Century AD
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Romance
Branch
Western
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old French, Middle French and French
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Standard French
Language Position
913
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed German
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
de
fr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
deu
fra
ISO 639 2/B
ger
fre
ISO 639 3
deu
fra
ISO 639 6
deus
fras
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
stan1290
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
51-AAA-i
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic