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
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
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
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
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
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 6
deus
Not Available
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
nepa1254
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
12
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative
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.