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Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
7
Germany
North Dakota, United States of America
Europe
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Council for German Orthography
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Albanian Languages
 
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
26
10
9
Latin
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
6
30 weeks
 
hallo
Danke
Wie geht es dir?
gute Nacht
guten Abend
guten Tag
guten Morgen
bitte
Verzeihung
Tschüs
Ich liebe dich
Entschuldigung
 
Swiss German
Switzerland
4,500,000.00
Swabian German
Germany
820,000.00
Texas German
Texas
6,000.00
28
 
229.00 million
1.39 %
101.00 million
128.00 million
Deutsch
Deutsch, Tedesco
allemand
Deutsch
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Germans
 
6th Century AD
Indo-European Family
Germanic
Western
No early forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
9
Signed German
Individual
 
de
deu
ger
deu
deus
high1287, uppe1397
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Living
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Fusional, Synthetic
 
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
5
China, Taiwan
Republic of Brazil
Asia
Indonesia, Malaysia
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  • Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
  • In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Japanese and Korean Languages
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26
24
23
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
6
88 weeks
 
您好 (Nín hǎo)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
请 (Qǐng)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
劳驾 (Láojià)
 
Mandarin
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
960,000,000.00
Wu
China, United States of America
80,000,000.00
Yue
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
60,000,000.00
10
 
1,051.00 million
16.00 %
873.00 million
178.00 million
中文 (zhōngwén)
Zhongwen, Hanyu
chinois
Chinesisch
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Han
 
1250 BC
Sino-Tibetan Family
-
-
No early forms
Standard Chinese
1
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Individual
 
zh
zho
chi
zho
zho
sini1245
79-AAA
Living
Subject-Verb-Object
Analytic, Isolating

German vs Chinese Speaking Countries

There are plenty of languages spoken around the world. Every country has its own official language. Compare German vs Chinese speaking countries, so that you will have total count of countries that speak German or Chinese language.

  • German is spoken as a national language in: .
  • Chinese is spoken as a national language in: .

You will also get to know the continents where German and Chinese speaking countries lie. Based on the number of people that speak these languages, the position of German language is and position of Chinese language is . Find all the information about these languages on German and Chinese.

German and Chinese Language History

Comparison of German vs Chinese language history gives us differences between origin of German and Chinese language. History of German language states that this language originated in whereas history of Chinese language states that this language originated in . Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on German vs Chinese.

German and Chinese Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where German and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in German and Chinese language. German word for "Hello" is or Chinese word for "Thank You" is . Find more of such common German Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

German vs Chinese Difficulty

The German vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of German Alphabets and Chinese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare German and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is while to learn Chinese time required is .