Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Israel
Total No. Of Countries
71
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Germany
Israel
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
Israel
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa, Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Poland
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
Academy of the Hebrew 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.
- The original language of Bible is Hebrew.
- The men and women use different verbs in hebrew language.
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Arabic and Aramaic languages
Derived From
Albanian Languages
Aramaic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2622
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
100
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
922
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Hebrew
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
hallo
שלום (Shalom)
Thank You
Danke
תודה (Toda)
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)
Good Night
gute Nacht
לילה טוב (Laila tov)
Good Evening
guten Abend
ערב טוב (Erev tov)
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)
Good Morning
guten Morgen
בוקר טוב (Boker tov)
Please
bitte
בבקשה (bevekshah)
Sorry
Verzeihung
סליחה! (Slicha)
Bye
Tschüs
להתראות (Lehitraot)
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
בבקשה!
Dialect 1
Swiss German
Ashkenazi Hebrew
Where They Speak
Switzerland
Israel
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Swabian German
Samaritan Hebrew
Where They Speak
Germany
Israel, Palestine
How Many People Speak
820,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Texas German
Yemenite Hebrew
Where They Speak
Texas
Israel
How Many People Speak
6,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
287
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million9.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.39 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
101.00 million4.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million5.60 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Deutsch
עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Israeli, Ivrit
French Name
allemand
hébreu
German Name
Deutsch
Hebräisch
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]
Ethnicity
Germans
Hebrew-speaking people
Origin
6th Century AD
1000 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Semitic
Branch
Western
Canaanitic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Modern Hebrew
Language Position
923
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed German
Signed Hebrew
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
de
he
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
deu
heb
ISO 639 2/B
ger
heb
ISO 639 3
deu
heb
ISO 639 6
deus
heb
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
hebr1246
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
12-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic