Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
India, Pakistan
  
National Language
Germany
  
Jammu and Kashmir, 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
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Dogri is derived from Sanskrit, but it has absorbed a large number of Arabic, Persian and English words.
- Dogri language has its own grammar and dictionary. The grammar of dogri has very strong sanskrit base.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Hindi and Punjabi Languages
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Dogri-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Perso-Arabic script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
hallo
  
Ke aal aee
  
Thank You
Danke
  
dhanwaad
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
kiyaan oo ji
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
shub ratri
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
shub ratri
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
Not Available
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
su prabat
  
Please
bitte
  
kripya
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
mere kaulan galti ooyyii
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
changa ji pher
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
Minjo tere naal pyar hega
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
gustakhi maaf
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Jaunsari
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Himachal Pradesh, India
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
100,000.00
  
99+
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Kullu
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Georgia, Himachal Pradesh, India
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Hinduri
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
France, Himachal Pradesh, India
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
4.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
4.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
Not Available
  
Native Name
Deutsch
  
डोगरी
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Dhogaryali, Dogari, Dogri Jammu, Dogri Pahari, Dogri-Kangri, Dongari, Hindi Dogri, Tokkaru
  
French Name
allemand
  
dogri
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Dogri
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Dogras
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
1971
  
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
  
Dogri
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
doi
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
indo1311
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Not Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available