Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
Fiji, India
  
National Language
Germany
  
India
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Oceania
  
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
  
Central Hindi Directorate
  
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.
  
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Urdu
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Hindi.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
नमस्ते (Namastē)
  
Thank You
Danke
  
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
  
Please
bitte
  
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
खेद (Khēda)
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
अलविदा (Alavidā)
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Khariboli
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
240,000,000.00
  
2
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Marwari
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
  
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Bundeli
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Bundelkhand
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
4
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
380.00 million
  
5
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
260.00 million
  
4
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
120.00 million
  
6
Native Name
Deutsch
  
हिन्दी
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
  
French Name
allemand
  
hindi
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Hindi
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Hindustani people
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Western
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Standard Hindi
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Indian Signing System
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
hi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
hin
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
hin
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
hin
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
hins
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
hind1269
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
59-AAF-qf
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic