Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
72
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Germany
Nepal
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Hindi
Derived From
Albanian Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2648
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1012
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
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
hallo
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Danke
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
gute Nacht
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
guten Abend
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
Good afternoon
Good Morning
guten Morgen
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
bitte
कृपया
Sorry
Verzeihung
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Tschüs
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Swiss German
Doteli
Where They Speak
Switzerland
Nepal
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Swabian German
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Germany
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
820,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Texas German
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Texas
Nepal
How Many People Speak
6,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2812
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.39 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
101.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Deutsch
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
allemand
népalais
German Name
Deutsch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Germans
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
6th Century AD
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Western
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Nepali
Language Position
959
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed German
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
de
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
deu
nep
ISO 639 2/B
ger
nep
ISO 639 3
deu
npi
ISO 639 6
deus
nep
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
nepa1254
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative