Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Germany
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
  
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
Danke
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
bitte
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
Deutsch
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
allemand
  
népalais
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Western
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Nepali
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative