Countries
Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
7
8
2
13
National Language
Germany
India, Nepal
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
Nepal
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.
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Bhojpuri Language
Derived From
Albanian Languages
Not Available
Alphabets
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200
Alphabets
26
8
47
27
Phonology
How Many Vowels
10
7
8
5
How Many Consonants
9
1
Not Available
Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
6
5
Not Available
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks
9
Not Available
Greetings
Hello
hallo
pranam
Thank You
Danke
dhanyabad
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Good Night
gute Nacht
Śubharātri
Good Evening
guten Abend
shubh sandhya
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good Morning
guten Morgen
Suprabhaat
Please
bitte
kripaya
Sorry
Verzeihung
maf karai
Bye
Tschüs
Alavidā
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
kripaya
Dialects
Dialect 1
Swiss German
Tharuwat
Where They Speak
Switzerland
Nepal
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
18
Not Available
Dialect 2
Swabian German
Madhubani
Where They Speak
Germany
North India
How Many People Speak
820,000.00
26
Not Available
Dialect 3
Texas German
Khortha
Where They Speak
Texas
Deoghar, France
How Many People Speak
6,000.00
35
Not Available
Total No. Of Dialects
28
23
15
14
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
8
32.00 million
35
Speaking Population
1.39 %
12
0.41 %
33
Native Speakers
101.00 million
10
27.00 million
30
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
5
2.80 million
33
Native Name
Deutsch
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
French Name
allemand
maithili
German Name
Deutsch
Maithili
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Germans
Maithil
History
Origin
6th Century AD
14th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Not Available
Branch
Western
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Standard Maithili
Language Position
9
9
40
31
Signed Forms
Signed German
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
de
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
deu
mai
ISO 639 2/B
ger
mai
ISO 639 3
deu
mai
ISO 639 6
deus
Not Available
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
mait1250
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available
