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Nepali vs German


Countries

Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland  
India, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
7  
8
2  
13

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

Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
26  
8
48  
28

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10  
7
12  
9

How Many Consonants
9  
1
36  
26

Scripts
Latin  
Devanagari  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks  
9
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

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)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Swiss German  
Doteli  

Where They Speak
Switzerland  
Nepal  

How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00  
18
790,000.00  
30

Dialect 2
Swabian German  
Bajhangi  

Where They Speak
Germany  
India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
820,000.00  
26
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Texas German  
Baitadeli  

Where They Speak
Texas  
Nepal  

How Many People Speak
6,000.00  
35
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
28  
23
12  
12

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
229.00 million  
8
30.00 million  
36

Speaking Population
1.39 %  
12
0.25 %  
99+

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  

History

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  

Language Position
9  
9
59  
99+

Signed Forms
Signed German  
Signed Nepali  

Scope
Individual  
Individual, Macrolanguage  

Code

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  

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German and Nepali Language History

Comparison of German vs Nepali language history gives us differences between origin of German and Nepali language. History of German language states that this language originated in 6th Century AD whereas history of Nepali language states that this language originated in 19 BC. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on German and Nepali Language History.

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German and Nepali Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where German and Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in German and Nepali language. German word for "Hello" is hallo or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common German Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

German vs Nepali Difficulty

The German vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of German Alphabets and Nepali Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare German and Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.

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