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Countries

Countries

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia

Total No. Of Countries

75
0 46
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National Language

Germany
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine

Second Language

North Dakota, United States of America
United States of America

Speaking Continents

Europe
Africa, Europe

Minority Language

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

Regulated By

Council for German Orthography
known, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)

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.
  • Hungarian language has only preserved most of its ancient elements.
  • 'Magyar' is the Hungarian name for the language, the 'Magyar' is also used as an English word to refer to Hungarian people.

Similar To

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Mansi and Khanty Languages

Derived From

Albanian Languages
East and South Slavic Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2640
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1014
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

66
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
szia

Thank You

Danke
köszönöm

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?
Hogy vagy?

Good Night

gute Nacht
Jó Éjszakát

Good Evening

guten Abend
jó Estét

Good Afternoon

guten Tag
Jó Napot Kívánok

Good Morning

guten Morgen
jó Reggelt

Please

bitte
Kérlek

Sorry

Verzeihung
bocsi

Bye

Tschüs
viszlát

I Love You

Ich liebe dich
Szeretlek

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung
elnézést

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German
Csángó

Where They Speak

Switzerland
Bacău County, Rumania

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.0013,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Swabian German
Oberwart

Where They Speak

Germany
Austria

How Many People Speak

820,000.0013,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Texas German
Székely

Where They Speak

Texas
Székely Land

How Many People Speak

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

2811
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 %0.19 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

101.00 million13.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million0.07 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Deutsch
magyar / magyar nyelv

Alternative Names

Deutsch, Tedesco
Magyar

French Name

allemand
hongrois

German Name

Deutsch
Ungarisch

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[ˈmɒɟɒr]

Ethnicity

Germans
Hungarians

History

Origin

6th Century AD
1192 AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Uralic Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Finno-Ugric

Branch

Western
Ugric

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Hungarian

Standard Forms

German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Modern Hungarian

Language Position

966
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed German
Hungarian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

de
hu

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu
hun

ISO 639 2/B

ger
hun

ISO 639 3

deu
hun

ISO 639 6

deus
hun

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397
hung1274

Linguasphere

52-ACB–dl & -dm
ohu

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic

German and Hungarian Alphabets

German and Hungarian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in German and Hungarian. In German Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Hungarian Alphabets there are 40 letters. To learn German and Hungarian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of German and Hungarian 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 Hungarian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether German and Hungarian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

German and Hungarian Speaking population

German and Hungarian speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Hungarian languages can be compared. The total count of German and Hungarian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Hungarian language is 0.19 %. 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 Hungarian on German vs Hungarian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Hungarian Language Codes

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