Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
India, Pakistan
  
National Language
Germany
  
India, Pakistan
  
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 spoken in any of the countries
  
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.
  
- Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
- Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Hindi and Urdu Languages
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Kashmiri-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Assalām ‘alaikum
  
Thank You
Danke
  
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
Not Available
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
Hach t'ochoktiya
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
Hach ch'i
  
Please
bitte
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
Khuda hāfiz
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Kashtawari
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Poguli
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Pogul and Paristan valleys
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Rambani
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
5.60 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
5.42 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
Not Available
  
Native Name
Deutsch
  
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
  
French Name
allemand
  
kashmiri
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Kaschmiri
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
[kəːʃur]
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Kashmiris or koshur
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
12th 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
  
Kashmiri
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
ks
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
kas
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
kas
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
kas
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
kash1277
  
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