Countries
India
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Total No. Of Countries
17
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
Germany
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Regulated By
-
Council for German Orthography
Interesting Facts
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
Similar To
Munda Language
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Derived From
-
Albanian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3026
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
610
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
219
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Henda ho
hallo
Thank You
Adi Johar
Danke
How Are You?
Cet’leka menama?
Wie geht es dir?
Good Night
Boge Ninda
gute Nacht
Good Evening
Boge Ayup’
guten Abend
Good Afternoon
संध्यायान
guten Tag
Good Morning
Boge Setak’
guten Morgen
Please
দয়া করে
bitte
Sorry
দুঃখিত
Verzeihung
Bye
Hariau
Tschüs
I Love You
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Ich liebe dich
Excuse Me
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Entschuldigung
Dialect 1
Mahali
Swiss German
Where They Speak
India
Switzerland
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.004,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Not present
Swabian German
Where They Speak
-
Germany
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00820,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Texas German
Where They Speak
-
Texas
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.006,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
128
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
6.30 million229.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %1.39 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.30 million101.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.50 million128.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Deutsch
Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
Deutsch, Tedesco
French Name
santal
allemand
German Name
Santali
Deutsch
Pronunciation
[sɑnˈtɑli]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Ethnicity
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Germans
Origin
20th century
6th Century AD
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Santali
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Language Position
419
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Santali Sign Language
Signed German
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
de
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sat
deu
ISO 639 2/B
sat
ger
ISO 639 3
sat
deu
ISO 639 6
sat
deus
Glottocode
sant1410
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic