Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
India
National Language
Germany
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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
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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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Munda Language
Derived From
Albanian Languages
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Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
Santali-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
Danke
Adi Johar
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
gute Nacht
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
guten Abend
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
संध्यायान
Good Morning
guten Morgen
Boge Setak’
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Swiss German
Mahali
Where They Speak
Switzerland
India
Dialect 2
Swabian German
Not present
Where They Speak
Germany
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Dialect 3
Texas German
Not present
Native Name
Deutsch
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
allemand
santal
German Name
Deutsch
Santali
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
Germans
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
6th Century AD
20th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Santali
Signed Forms
Signed German
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
de
No data available
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
sant1410
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
No data available
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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German and Santali Speaking population
German and Santali speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Santali languages can be compared. The total count of German and Santali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Santali language is 0.02 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak German and Santali on German vs Santali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
German and Santali Language Codes
German and Santali language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. German and Santali Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.