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Countries

Countries

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Cyprus, European Union, Greece

Total No. Of Countries

73
0 46
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National Language

Germany
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine

Second Language

North Dakota, United States of America
Roman Empire

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine

Regulated By

Council for German Orthography
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)

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.
  • Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
  • The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.

Similar To

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Armenian

Derived From

Albanian Languages
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2624
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

107
0 32
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How Many Consonants

917
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Arabic, 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 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
γεια σας (geia sas)

Thank You

Danke
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)

Good Night

gute Nacht
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)

Good Evening

guten Abend
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)

Good Afternoon

guten Tag
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)

Good Morning

guten Morgen
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)

Please

bitte
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)

Sorry

Verzeihung
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)

Bye

Tschüs
αντίο (antío)

I Love You

Ich liebe dich
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German
Cappadocian Greek

Where They Speak

Switzerland
Greece

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.002,800.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Swabian German
Griko

Where They Speak

Germany
Italy

How Many People Speak

820,000.0050,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Texas German
Mariupol

Where They Speak

Texas
Ukraine

How Many People Speak

6,000.0013,000,000.00
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 million13.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.39 %0.18 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

101.00 million13.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million13.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Deutsch
ελληνικά

Alternative Names

Deutsch, Tedesco
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic

French Name

allemand
grec moderne (après 1453)

German Name

Deutsch
Neugriechisch

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[eliniˈka]

Ethnicity

Germans
Greeks or Hellenes

History

Origin

6th Century AD
1500 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Hellenic

Branch

Western
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek

Standard Forms

German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Modern Greek

Language Position

974
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed German
Greek Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

de
el

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu
ell

ISO 639 2/B

ger
gre

ISO 639 3

deu
ell

ISO 639 6

deus
ells

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397
gree1276

Linguasphere

52-ACB–dl & -dm
56-AAA-a

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 Greek Alphabets

German and Greek Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in German and Greek. In German Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Greek Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn German and Greek languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of German and Greek 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 Greek greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether German and Greek are Most Spoken Languages.

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

German and Greek Speaking population

German and Greek speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Greek languages can be compared. The total count of German and Greek Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Greek language is 0.18 %. 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 Greek on German vs Greek where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Greek Language Codes

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