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Countries

Countries

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City

Total No. Of Countries

77
0 46
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National Language

Germany
Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City

Second Language

North Dakota, United States of America
Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia

Regulated By

Council for German Orthography
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)

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.
  • One of the most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
  • Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.

Similar To

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
French and Portuguese Languages

Derived From

Albanian Languages
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2621
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

105
0 32
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How Many Consonants

916
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
ciao

Thank You

Danke
grazie

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?
Come stai?

Good Night

gute Nacht
buonanotte

Good Evening

guten Abend
buonasera

Good Afternoon

guten Tag
buon pomeriggio

Good Morning

guten Morgen
buongiorno

Please

bitte
Per Favore

Sorry

Verzeihung
scusate

Bye

Tschüs
arrivederci

I Love You

Ich liebe dich
Ti amo

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung
Scusami

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German
Romanesco

Where They Speak

Switzerland
Lazio

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.003,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Swabian German
Central Italian

Where They Speak

Germany
Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria

How Many People Speak

820,000.005,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Texas German
Tuscan

Where They Speak

Texas
Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria

How Many People Speak

6,000.0069,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2815
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

229.00 million78.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.39 %0.90 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

101.00 million64.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million14.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Deutsch
Italiano

Alternative Names

Deutsch, Tedesco
Italiano

French Name

allemand
italien

German Name

Deutsch
Italienisch

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[itaˈljaːno]

Ethnicity

Germans
Italians

History

Origin

6th Century AD
960 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Romance

Branch

Western
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Italian

Language Position

927
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed German
italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

de
it

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu
ita

ISO 639 2/B

ger
ita

ISO 639 3

deu
ita

ISO 639 6

deus
itas

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397
ital1282

Linguasphere

52-ACB–dl & -dm
51-AAA-q

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 Italian Alphabets

German and Italian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in German and Italian. In German Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Italian Alphabets there are 21 letters. To learn German and Italian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of German and Italian 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 Italian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether German and Italian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

German and Italian Speaking population

German and Italian speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Italian languages can be compared. The total count of German and Italian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Italian language is 0.90 %. 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 Italian on German vs Italian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Italian Language Codes

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