Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
India
Total No. Of Countries
71
0
46
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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
Alphabets
2630
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
106
0
32
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How Many Consonants
921
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
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
Henda ho
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’
Please
bitte
দয়া করে
Sorry
Verzeihung
দুঃখিত
Bye
Tschüs
Hariau
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Swiss German
Mahali
Where They Speak
Switzerland
India
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Swabian German
Not present
Where They Speak
Germany
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How Many People Speak
820,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Texas German
Not present
Where They Speak
Texas
-
How Many People Speak
6,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
281
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million6.30 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.39 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
101.00 million6.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million6.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
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
Subgroup
Germanic
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Branch
Western
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Santali
Language Position
941
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed German
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
de
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
deu
sat
ISO 639 2/B
ger
sat
ISO 639 3
deu
sat
ISO 639 6
deus
sat
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
sant1410
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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