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Countries

Countries

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden

Total No. Of Countries

74
0 46
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National Language

Germany
Sweden

Second Language

North Dakota, United States of America
Finland

Speaking Continents

Europe
Antartica, Europe

Minority Language

Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America

Regulated By

Council for German Orthography
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council

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 Swedish language, article comes after noun.
  • Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.

Similar To

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

Derived From

Albanian Languages
Old Norse Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2629
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

109
0 32
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How Many Consonants

918
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
hej

Thank You

Danke
tacka dig

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?
hur mår du

Good Night

gute Nacht
godnatt

Good Evening

guten Abend
god kväll

Good Afternoon

guten Tag
god eftermiddag

Good Morning

guten Morgen
god morgon

Please

bitte
vänligen

Sorry

Verzeihung
ledsen

Bye

Tschüs
hej då

I Love You

Ich liebe dich
jag älskar dig

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung
ursäkta mig

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German
Dialects

Where They Speak

Switzerland
Gabon

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.0078,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Swabian German
Dialects

Where They Speak

Germany
Georgia

How Many People Speak

820,000.0078,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Texas German
Dialects

Where They Speak

Texas
France

How Many People Speak

6,000.0096,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2879
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

229.00 million15.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.39 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

101.00 million8.70 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million5.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Deutsch
Svenska

Alternative Names

Deutsch, Tedesco
Ruotsi, Svenska

French Name

allemand
suédois

German Name

Deutsch
Schwedisch

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]

Ethnicity

Germans
Swedes, Finland Swedes

History

Origin

6th Century AD
13th Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Germanic

Branch

Western
Northern (Scandinavian)

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Swedish

Standard Forms

German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Standard Swedish

Language Position

989
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed German
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

de
sv

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu
swe

ISO 639 2/B

ger
swe

ISO 639 3

deu
swe

ISO 639 6

deus
swe

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397
swed1254

Linguasphere

52-ACB–dl & -dm
52-AAA-ck to -cw

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
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German and Swedish Alphabets

German and Swedish Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in German and Swedish. In German Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Swedish Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn German and Swedish languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of German and Swedish 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 Swedish greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether German and Swedish are Most Spoken Languages.

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

German and Swedish Speaking population

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

German and Swedish Language Codes

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