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
  
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.
  
- The earliest literature in Oriya was traced in 7th to 9th centuries.
- Since Odia is having a long literary history and has not borrowed largely from other languages, it is the 6th classical language in India.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Bengali and Assamese
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Oriya-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
  
Thank You
Danke
  
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
  
Please
bitte
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Baleswari
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Ganjami
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Kosli
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
India
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
33.00 million
  
34
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
33.00 million
  
28
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
Not Available
  
Native Name
Deutsch
  
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
  
French Name
allemand
  
oriya
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Oriya-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
[ˈoɽia]
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Odias
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
3 BC
  
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 Odia
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Indian Signing System
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
or
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
ori
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
ori
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
ori
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
macr1269
  
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