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Countries

Countries

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

73
0 46
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National Language

Germany
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

Second Language

North Dakota, United States of America
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia

Minority Language

Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Regulated By

Council for German Orthography
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan

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 Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
  • Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.

Similar To

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Pashto and Balochi Languages

Derived From

Albanian Languages
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2632
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

106
0 32
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How Many Consonants

923
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Arabic

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, 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
سلام

Thank You

Danke
متشکرم

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?
چطور هستید?

Good Night

gute Nacht
شب بخیر

Good Evening

guten Abend
عصر بخیر

Good Afternoon

guten Tag
بعد از ظهر بخیر

Good Morning

guten Morgen
صبح به خیر

Please

bitte
لطفا

Sorry

Verzeihung
متاسف

Bye

Tschüs
خدا حافظ

I Love You

Ich liebe dich
من شما را دوست دارم

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung
ببخشيد!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German
Western Persian

Where They Speak

Switzerland
Iran, Iraq

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Swabian German
Dari Persian

Where They Speak

Germany
Afganistan

How Many People Speak

820,000.0012,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Texas German
Tajik Persian

Where They Speak

Texas
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

How Many People Speak

6,000.007,900,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2812
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

229.00 million65.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.39 %0.99 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

101.00 million65.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million110.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Deutsch
فارسی

Alternative Names

Deutsch, Tedesco
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian

French Name

allemand
persan

German Name

Deutsch
Persisch

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]

Ethnicity

Germans
Persian people

History

Origin

6th Century AD
1500 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Indo-Iranian

Branch

Western
Iranian

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian

Standard Forms

German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Persian

Language Position

923
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed German
Persian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

de
fa

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu
fas

ISO 639 2/B

ger
per

ISO 639 3

deu
pes

ISO 639 6

deus
pers

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397
fars1254

Linguasphere

52-ACB–dl & -dm
58-AAC-c

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic

German and Persian Alphabets

German and Persian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in German and Persian. In German Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Persian Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn German and Persian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of German and Persian 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 Persian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether German and Persian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

German and Persian Speaking population

German and Persian speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Persian languages can be compared. The total count of German and Persian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 %. 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 Persian on German vs Persian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Persian Language Codes

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