Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
India, No official status
  
National Language
Germany
  
India
  
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
  
Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Bhojpuri was anciently written in Kaithi scripts.
- In Mughal Era, Kaithi script was used in administrative purposes for writing in Bhojpuri language.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Maithili and Magahi
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Bhojpuri-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
प्रणाम (prannam)
  
Thank You
Danke
  
धन्वाद (dhanvaad)
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
का हाल बा? (kaa haal ba?)
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
राम राम (raam raam)
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
राम राम (raam raam)
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
राम राम (raam raam)
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
राम राम (raam raam)
  
Please
bitte
  
मेहरबानी करके (meharbani karke)
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
प्रणाम (prannam)
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
हम तोहसे प्यार करेनी (hum tohse pyaar kareni)
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Caribbean Hindustani
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Fiji Hindi
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Tharu Bhojpuri
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
40.00 million
  
31
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
40.00 million
  
24
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
Not Available
  
Native Name
Deutsch
  
भोजपुरी (bʰojpurī)
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Bajpuri, Bhojapuri, Bhozpuri, Bihari, Deswali, Khotla, Piscimas
  
French Name
allemand
  
bhojpuri
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Bhojpuri
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
/boʊdʒˈpʊəri/
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Not Available
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
19th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Bhojpuri
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
No data Available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
bho
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
bho
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
bho
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
bhoj1246
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
59-AAF-sa
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available