Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
National Language
Turkey
Germany
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
Council for German Orthography
Interesting Facts
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Derived From
-
Albanian Languages
Alphabets in
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
Danke
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
Wie geht es dir?
Good Night
İyi Geceler
gute Nacht
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
guten Abend
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
guten Tag
Good Morning
günaydın
guten Morgen
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
Ich liebe dich
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
Entschuldigung
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
Swiss German
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Switzerland
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
Swabian German
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Germany
Dialect 3
Gagauz
Texas German
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
Texas
Native Name
Türkçe
Deutsch
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
Deutsch, Tedesco
French Name
turc
allemand
German Name
Türkisch
Deutsch
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Ethnicity
Turkish
Germans
Origin
c. 1350
6th Century AD
Language Family
Turkic Family
Indo-European Family
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Western
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
Signed German
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
nucl1301
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Turkish and German 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 Turkish and German greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Turkish and German language. Turkish word for "Hello" is Merhaba or German word for "Thank You" is Danke. Find more of such common Turkish Greetings and German Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Turkish vs German Difficulty
The Turkish vs German difficulty level basically depends on the number of Turkish Alphabets and German 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 Turkish and German are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Turkish and German, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Turkish is 44 weeks while to learn German time required is 30 weeks.