Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
India, Pakistan
  
National Language
Germany
  
Pakistan
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Pakistan
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Oceania
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
India
  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
  
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
  
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.
  
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Arabic and Hindi Languages
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Ghaznavid Persian Language
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Urdu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
خوش آمديد
  
Thank You
Danke
  
آپ کا شکریہ
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
گڈ نائٹ
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
سلام علیکم
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
گڈ آفٹر نون
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
گڈ مارننگ
  
Please
bitte
  
براہ مہربانی
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
معاف کرنا
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
الوداع
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
مجھے تم سے محبت
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
معاف کیجئے گا
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Dakhini
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
11,000,000.00
  
12
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Hyderabadi Urdu
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Rekhta
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
South Asia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
104.00 million
  
15
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
61.00 million
  
19
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
43.00 million
  
14
Native Name
Deutsch
  
اُردُو
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Bihari
  
French Name
allemand
  
ourdou
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Urdu
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
[ˈʊrd̪u]
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Not Available
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
12th Century CE
  
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
  
Modern Standard Urdu
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Signed Urdu
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
ur
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
urd
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
urd
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
urd
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
urdu1245
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
59-AAF-q
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional
  
German and Urdu Speaking population
German and Urdu speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Urdu languages can be compared. The total count of German and Urdu Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Urdu language is 0.99 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak German and Urdu on German vs Urdu where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
German and Urdu Language Codes
German and Urdu language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. German and Urdu Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.