Countries
Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
72
0
46
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National Language
Germany
Malta
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
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
National Council for the Maltese 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.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
Albanian Languages
Roman Languages
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2630
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
106
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
924
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
hallo
Ħello
Thank You
Danke
Grazzi
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
Kif int?
Good Night
gute Nacht
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
guten Abend
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
guten Morgen
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
bitte
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
Verzeihung
Skużani!
Bye
Tschüs
Ċaw
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
Skużi!
Dialects
Dialect 1
Swiss German
Qormi
Where They Speak
Switzerland
Malta
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Swabian German
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Germany
Malta
How Many People Speak
820,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Texas German
Not Present
Where They Speak
Texas
-
How Many People Speak
6,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
282
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million0.52 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.39 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
101.00 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million0.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Deutsch
Malti
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Malti
French Name
allemand
maltais
German Name
Deutsch
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Germans
Maltese
History
Origin
6th Century AD
c. 1470
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Semitic
Branch
Western
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Maltese
Language Position
925
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed German
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
de
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
deu
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
ger
mlt
ISO 639 3
deu
mlt
ISO 639 6
deus
mlt
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
malt1254
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic