Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
National Language
Germany
China, Taiwan
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin 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.
- 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.
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
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Derived From
Albanian Languages
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Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
Chinese.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Thank You
Danke
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
gute Nacht
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
guten Abend
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
guten Morgen
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Sorry
Verzeihung
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Swiss German
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Switzerland
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Dialect 2
Swabian German
Wu
Where They Speak
Germany
China, United States of America
Dialect 3
Texas German
Yue
Where They Speak
Texas
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Native Name
Deutsch
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
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French Name
allemand
chinois
German Name
Deutsch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
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Origin
6th Century AD
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Germanic
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Branch
Western
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Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Standard Chinese
Signed Forms
Signed German
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
deus
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Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
sini1245
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
79-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating
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 hallo or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). 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 30 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.