Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Fiji, India
Total No. Of Countries
72
0
46
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National Language
Germany
India
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Oceania
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
Central Hindi Directorate
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.
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Urdu
Derived From
Albanian Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2644
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1011
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
933
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Thank You
Danke
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Good Night
gute Nacht
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Good Evening
guten Abend
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Good Morning
guten Morgen
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Please
bitte
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
Verzeihung
खेद (Khēda)
Bye
Tschüs
अलविदा (Alavidā)
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Dialect 1
Swiss German
Khariboli
Where They Speak
Switzerland
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Swabian German
Marwari
Where They Speak
Germany
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
How Many People Speak
820,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Texas German
Bundeli
Where They Speak
Texas
Bundelkhand
How Many People Speak
6,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2821
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million380.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.39 %4.70 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
101.00 million260.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million120.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Deutsch
हिन्दी
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
French Name
allemand
hindi
German Name
Deutsch
Hindi
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Ethnicity
Germans
Hindustani people
Origin
6th Century AD
7th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Western
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Standard Hindi
Language Position
95
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed German
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
de
hi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
deu
hin
ISO 639 2/B
ger
hin
ISO 639 3
deu
hin
ISO 639 6
deus
hins
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
hind1269
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
59-AAF-qf
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic