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Language code: ger

Technical information about ISO 639 language code ger

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The table below provides technical details for the German language, designated by the ger code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

ger (Bibliographic)

Name

Official

German

Native

Deutsch

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Low GermanCentral GermanUpper German
Related languages
DutchLuxembourgishYiddishAfrikaansWest Frisian
Key facts
German employs three grammatical genders and four noun casesThe alphabet includes the unique letter ß (Eszett)Words can be concatenated to create extremely long compound nounsGerman shares roughly 60 % lexical similarity with EnglishMajor spelling reforms were introduced in 1996 and revised in 2006
Sample phrase

Hallo, wie geht es dir?

Character encodings

ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-15, Windows 1252, CP 437, CP 850, MacRoman, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The German language, identified by the code ger, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

The ISO 639-2 standard offers two codes for the German language: ger for bibliographic purposes and deu for terminology uses.

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