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Countries

Countries

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine

Total No. Of Countries

76
0 46
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National Language

Germany
Moldova, Romania

Second Language

North Dakota, United States of America
Kazakhstan, Russia

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

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

Regulated By

Council for German Orthography
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li

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.
  • Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
  • The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.

Similar To

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.

Derived From

Albanian Languages
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2631
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

107
0 32
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How Many Consonants

920
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
alo

Thank You

Danke
multumesc

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?
ce mai faci?

Good Night

gute Nacht
noapte Buna

Good Evening

guten Abend
buna Seara

Good Afternoon

guten Tag
buna Ziua

Good Morning

guten Morgen
bună Dimineața

Please

bitte
Vă Rog

Sorry

Verzeihung
scuze

Bye

Tschüs
La revedere

I Love You

Ich liebe dich
Te iubesc

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung
Scuza-Ma

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German
Aromanian

Where They Speak

Switzerland
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.00250,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Swabian German
Megleno-Romanian

Where They Speak

Germany
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey

How Many People Speak

820,000.005,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Texas German
Istro-Romanian

Where They Speak

Texas
Croatia

How Many People Speak

6,000.001,400.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2810
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

229.00 million28.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.39 %0.37 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

101.00 million24.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million4.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Deutsch
Română

Alternative Names

Deutsch, Tedesco
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian

French Name

allemand
roumain; moldave

German Name

Deutsch
Rumänisch

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[roˈmɨnə]

Ethnicity

Germans
Romanians

History

Origin

6th Century AD
1521

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Germanic
-

Branch

Western
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Proto-Romanian

Standard Forms

German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Romanian

Language Position

936
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed German
Romanian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

de
ro

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu
ron

ISO 639 2/B

ger
rum

ISO 639 3

deu
ron

ISO 639 6

deus
ron

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397
roma1327

Linguasphere

52-ACB–dl & -dm
51-AAD-c

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic

German and Romanian Alphabets

German and Romanian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in German and Romanian. In German Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Romanian Alphabets there are 31 letters. To learn German and Romanian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of German and Romanian 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 Romanian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether German and Romanian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

German and Romanian Speaking population

German and Romanian speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Romanian languages can be compared. The total count of German and Romanian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Romanian language is 0.37 %. 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 Romanian on German vs Romanian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Romanian Language Codes

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