Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
India
  
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
  
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
  
NA
  
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.
  
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Bengali Language
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Gujarati-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
hallo
  
નમસ્તે (namaste)
  
Thank You
Danke
  
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
  
Please
bitte
  
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
બાય (Bāya)
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Kathiyawadi
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Kharwa
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
60.00 million
  
27
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
50.00 million
  
22
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
Not Available
  
Native Name
Deutsch
  
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
  
French Name
allemand
  
goudjrati
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Gujarati-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Gujaratis
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
15
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Western
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Gujarati
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Modern Gujarati
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
gu
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
guj
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
guj
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
guj
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
guja1252
  
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
  
Not Available