German

Japanese

German and Japanese

German

Japanese

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Countries

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Japan

Total No. Of Countries

0 46

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National Language

Germany

Japan

Second Language

North Dakota, United States of America

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe

Asia, Pacific

Minority Language

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

Palau

Regulated By

Council for German Orthography

Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education

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.

In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.

Similar To

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Korean Language

Derived From

Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2699

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

105

0 32

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How Many Consonants

914

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Kana

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks88 weeks

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

hallo

こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)

Thank You

Danke

ありがとう (Arigatō)

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?

お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)

Good Night

gute Nacht

おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)

Good Evening

guten Abend

こんばんは (Konbanwa)

Good Afternoon

guten Tag

こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)

Good Morning

guten Morgen

おはよう (Ohayō)

Please

bitte

お願いします (Onegaishimasu)

Sorry

Verzeihung

ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)

Bye

Tschüs

さようなら (Sayōnara)

I Love You

Ich liebe dich

愛しています (Aishiteimasu)

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung

すみません (Sumimasen)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German

Sanuki

Where They Speak

Switzerland

Kagawa

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.001,000,000.00

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Swabian German

Hakata

Where They Speak

Germany

Fukuoka

How Many People Speak

820,000.00127,000,000.00

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Texas German

Kansai

Where They Speak

Texas

kansai

How Many People Speak

6,000.00127,000,000.00

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

2831

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

229.00 million128.00 million

0 1200

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Speaking Population

1.39 %1.90 %

0 89

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Native Speakers

101.00 million128.00 million

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million3.00 million

0.01 400

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Native Name

Deutsch

日本語

Alternative Names

Deutsch, Tedesco

Nihongo

French Name

allemand

japonais

German Name

Deutsch

Japanisch

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]

Ethnicity

Germans

Japanese (Yamato)

History

Origin

6th Century AD

1185

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Japonic Family

Subgroup

Germanic

Branch

Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese

Standard Forms

German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Japanese

Language Position

1 120

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Signed Forms

Signed German

Signed Japanese

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu

jpn

ISO 639 2/B

ger

jpn

ISO 639 3

deu

jpn

ISO 639 6

deus

jpn

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397

nucl1643

Linguasphere

52-ACB–dl & -dm

45-CAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic

Agglutinative, Synthetic

German and Japanese Alphabets

German and Japanese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in German and Japanese. In German Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters. To learn German and Japanese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of German and Japanese 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 Japanese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether German and Japanese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

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German and Japanese Speaking population

German and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of German and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. 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 Japanese on German vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Japanese Language Codes

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