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Countries

Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries

71
0 46
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National Language

Germany
Burundi, Gambia

Second Language

North Dakota, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Africa, Asia

Minority Language

Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Council for German Orthography
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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.
  • Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
  • Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.

Similar To

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Kinyarwanda Language

Derived From

Albanian Languages
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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

919
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

66
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks36 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
Bwakeye

Thank You

Danke
Urakoze

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?
Urakomeye?

Good Night

gute Nacht
Ijoro ryiza

Good Evening

guten Abend
Mwiriwe

Good Afternoon

guten Tag
Mwiriwe

Good Morning

guten Morgen
Mwaramutse

Please

bitte
Ndagusavye

Sorry

Verzeihung
Ndasubiza

Bye

Tschüs
N’agasaga

I Love You

Ich liebe dich
Ndi waramutse

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung
Ndasaba

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German
Rwanda-Rundi

Where They Speak

Switzerland
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Swabian German
Ha

Where They Speak

Germany
Tanzania

How Many People Speak

820,000.00990,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Texas German
Shubi

Where They Speak

Texas
Tanzania

How Many People Speak

6,000.00153,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

286
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

229.00 million8.80 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.39 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

101.00 million8.80 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million12.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Deutsch
íkiRǔndi

Alternative Names

Deutsch, Tedesco
Rundi, Urundi

French Name

allemand
rundi

German Name

Deutsch
Kirundi

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[kɪˈrʊndi]

Ethnicity

Germans
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa

History

Origin

6th Century AD
1500

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Germanic
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Branch

Western
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Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Kirundi

Language Position

986
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed German
Kirundi Sign Language

Scope

Individual
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Code

ISO 639 1

de
rn

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu
run

ISO 639 2/B

ger
run

ISO 639 3

deu
run

ISO 639 6

deus
run

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397
rund1242

Linguasphere

52-ACB–dl & -dm
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Types of Language

Language Type

Living
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Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
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German and Kirundi Alphabets

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

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

German and Kirundi Speaking population

German and Kirundi speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Kirundi languages can be compared. The total count of German and Kirundi Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Kirundi language is 0.13 %. 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 Kirundi on German vs Kirundi where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Kirundi Language Codes

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