Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
India
Total No. Of Countries
71
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Germany
India
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
Govenment of Goa
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.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Marathi
Derived From
Albanian Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2652
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1016
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
936
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks4 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
hallo
Namaskar
Thank You
Danke
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
kaso assa?
Good Night
gute Nacht
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
guten Abend
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
guten Morgen
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
bitte
Chike
Sorry
Verzeihung
Maf kor
Bye
Tschüs
Adeus
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Swiss German
Antruz
Where They Speak
Switzerland
Goa
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Swabian German
Not present
Where They Speak
Germany
-
How Many People Speak
820,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Texas German
Not present
Where They Speak
Texas
-
How Many People Speak
6,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
281
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.39 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
101.00 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Deutsch
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
allemand
konkani
German Name
Deutsch
Konkani
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Germans
Konkanis
Origin
6th Century AD
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
-
Branch
Western
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Kokani
Language Position
923
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed German
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
de
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
deu
kok
ISO 639 2/B
ger
kok
ISO 639 3
deu
kok
ISO 639 6
deus
kok
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
goan1235
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-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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