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Countries

Countries

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey

Total No. Of Countries

711
0 46
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National Language

Germany
Turkey

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania

Regulated By

Council for German Orthography
Turkish Language Association

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.
  • Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
  • Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.

Similar To

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

Derived From

Albanian Languages
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2629
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

108
0 32
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How Many Consonants

921
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 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
Merhaba

Thank You

Danke
teşekkür ederim

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?
Nasılsın?

Good Night

gute Nacht
İyi Geceler

Good Evening

guten Abend
İyi Akşamlar

Good Afternoon

guten Tag
Tünaydın

Good Morning

guten Morgen
günaydın

Please

bitte
lütfen

Sorry

Verzeihung
üzgünüm

Bye

Tschüs
Hoşçakal

I Love You

Ich liebe dich
Seni seviyorum

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung
Afedersiniz

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German
Azerbaijani Turkish

Where They Speak

Switzerland
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.0026,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Swabian German
Crimean Turkish

Where They Speak

Germany
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

How Many People Speak

820,000.00480,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Texas German
Gagauz

Where They Speak

Texas
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine

How Many People Speak

6,000.00140,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

289
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

229.00 million75.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.39 %0.95 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

101.00 million60.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million15.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Deutsch
Türkçe

Alternative Names

Deutsch, Tedesco
Anatolian, Türkisch

French Name

allemand
turc

German Name

Deutsch
Türkisch

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]

Ethnicity

Germans
Turkish

History

Origin

6th Century AD
c. 1350

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Turkic Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Turkic

Branch

Western
Southwestern(Oghuz)

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish

Standard Forms

German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)

Language Position

919
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed German
Turkish Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

de
tr

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu
tur

ISO 639 2/B

ger
tur

ISO 639 3

deu
tur

ISO 639 6

deus
tur

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397
nucl1301

Linguasphere

52-ACB–dl & -dm
44-AAB-a

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 Turkish Alphabets

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

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

German and Turkish Speaking population

German and Turkish speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Turkish languages can be compared. The total count of German and Turkish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Turkish language is 0.95 %. 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 Turkish on German vs Turkish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Turkish Language Codes

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