Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
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 in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
من شما را دوست دارم
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
ببخشيد!
Dialect 1
Swiss German
Western Persian
Where They Speak
Switzerland
Iran, Iraq
Dialect 2
Swabian German
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
Germany
Afganistan
Dialect 3
Texas German
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
Texas
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
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
Origin
6th Century AD
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Indo-Iranian
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Persian
Signed Forms
Signed German
Persian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
deus
Not Available
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
fars1254
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
58-AAC-c
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 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.