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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
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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
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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
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Total No. Of Dialects

2825
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

229.00 million163.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.39 %1.12 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

101.00 million76.00 million
0 873
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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
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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

German and French Alphabets

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

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

German and French Speaking population

German and French speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and French languages can be compared. The total count of German and French Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking French language is 1.12 %. 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 French on German vs French where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and French Language Codes

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