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2 Countries
2.2 Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
2.4 Total No. Of Countries
Spanish
7
Rank: 8 (Overall)
Bhojpuri
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2.6 National Language
Germany
2.8 Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
2.10 Speaking Continents
Europe
2.12 Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
2.14 Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
2.16 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.
2.18 Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
2.20 Derived From
Albanian Languages
4 Alphabets
4.2 Alphabets in
4.4 Alphabets
Tamil
26
Rank: 8 (Overall)
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4.5 Phonology
4.5.1 How Many Vowels
Thai
10
Rank: 7 (Overall)
Hebrew
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4.6.3 How Many Consonants
Hmong
9
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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4.7 Scripts
Latin
4.8 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
4.9 Hard to Learn
4.9.1 Language Levels
Armenian
6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
Bengali
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4.12.2 Time Taken to Learn
Chinese
30 weeks
Rank: 9 (Overall)
Cebuano
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5 Greetings
5.1 Hello
hallo
5.2 Thank You
Danke
5.3 How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
5.4 Good Night
gute Nacht
5.5 Good Evening
guten Abend
5.6 Good Afternoon
guten Tag
5.7 Good Morning
guten Morgen
5.8 Please
bitte
5.9 Sorry
Verzeihung
5.10 Bye
Tschüs
5.11 I Love You
Ich liebe dich
5.12 Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
6 Dialects
6.1 Dialect 1
Swiss German
6.1.1 Where They Speak
Switzerland
7.0.2 How Many People Speak
Chinese
4,500,000.00
Rank: 18 (Overall)
Macedonian
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8.2 Dialect 2
Swabian German
8.2.1 Where They Speak
Germany
8.2.2 How Many People Speak
Chinese
820,000.00
Rank: 26 (Overall)
Dzongkha
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8.4 Dialect 3
Texas German
8.4.1 Where They Speak
Texas
8.4.2 How Many People Speak
Swedish
6,000.00
Rank: 35 (Overall)
Romanian
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8.6 Total No. Of Dialects
English
28
Rank: 23 (Overall)
Sanskrit
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9 How Many People Speak
9.1 How Many People Speak?
English
229.00 million
Rank: 8 (Overall)
Abkhaz
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10.2 Speaking Population
Croatian
1.39 %
Rank: 12 (Overall)
Xhosa
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10.5 Native Speakers
Chinese
101.00 million
Rank: 10 (Overall)
Abkhaz
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10.5.2 Second Language Speakers
English
128.00 million
Rank: 5 (Overall)
Finnish
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10.5.3 Native Name
Deutsch
10.5.4 Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
10.5.5 French Name
allemand
10.5.6 German Name
Deutsch
10.6 Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
10.7 Ethnicity
Germans
11 History
11.1 Origin
6th Century AD
11.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
11.2.1 Subgroup
Germanic
11.2.2 Branch
Western
11.3 Language Forms
11.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
11.3.2 Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
11.3.3 Language Position
Georgian
9
Rank: 9 (Overall)
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12.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed German
12.4 Scope
Individual
13 Code
13.1 ISO 639 1
de
13.2 ISO 639 2
13.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
deu
13.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
ger
13.3 ISO 639 3
deu
13.4 ISO 639 6
deus
13.5 Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
13.6 Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
13.7 Types of Language
13.7.1 Language Type
Living
13.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
13.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic

Origin of German language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. German language is one of the Most Spoken Languages. The origin of German language states that it was put to use in 6th Century AD. The history of German language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about German Language History. German has no early forms. German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German is the standard form of German language and it is used in government centers. Know all About German Language.

German population

German population gives us the total count of number of people speaking German language. German language is spoken by 229.00 million people in the world. Most of the German population lies in the German Speaking Countries. German language is spoken as first language by 101.00 million people and as second language by about 128.00 million people. Get to know German speaking population in detail.

German writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. German writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of German language. Some languages share common writing systems. Latin script is used by German language. Learn more about . 

Information about German language

Check out all the information about German language here. You may find it interesting to learn German Alphabets or the vowels and consonants of this language. Also knowing about German Speaking Countries, German speaking continents and German Dialects will help in improving your knowledge about this language. Also while travelling to German countries knowing common German Greetings will help you in communicating with German people.