Countries
Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Estonia, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
72
0
46
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National Language
Germany
Estonia, Gambia
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
Institute of the Estonian Language
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.
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Finnish
Derived From
Albanian Languages
-
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2627
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
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
hallo
Tere
Thank You
Danke
aitäh
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
kuidas sul läheb
Good Night
gute Nacht
Head ööd
Good Evening
guten Abend
Tere õhtust
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
Tere päevast
Good Morning
guten Morgen
Tere hommikust
Please
bitte
Palun
Sorry
Verzeihung
Vabandust
Bye
Tschüs
Head aega
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
ma armastan sind
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
Vabandage
Dialects
Dialect 1
Swiss German
Keskmurre
Where They Speak
Switzerland
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.001,300,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Swabian German
Tartu
Where They Speak
Germany
Georgia, South Estonia
How Many People Speak
820,000.001,300,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Texas German
Idamurre
Where They Speak
Texas
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
How Many People Speak
6,000.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
288
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million1.10 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.39 %0.03 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
101.00 million0.95 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million1.10 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Deutsch
eesti keel
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Eesti keel
French Name
allemand
estonien
German Name
Deutsch
Estnisch
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
Ethnicity
Germans
Estonians
History
Origin
6th Century AD
13th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Finno-Ugric
Branch
Western
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Estonian
Language Position
922
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed German
Estonian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
Code
ISO 639 1
de
et
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
deu
est
ISO 639 2/B
ger
est
ISO 639 3
deu
est
ISO 639 6
deus
est
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
esto1258
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative