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.
  
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Old German Language
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Prakrit Language
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sanskrit-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
  
Thank You
Danke
  
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
शुभः सायंकालः
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
शुभ दुपार
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
  
Please
bitte
  
कृपया (kripayā)
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Total No. Of Dialects
0
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
14.10 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
14.10 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
Not Available
  
Native Name
Deutsch
  
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Not Available
  
French Name
allemand
  
sanskrit
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Sanskrit
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Not Available
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
2000 B.C.
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Western
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Vedic Sanskrit
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Sanskrit
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
sa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
san
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
san
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
san
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
sans1269
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Ancient
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Synthetic
  
German and Sanskrit 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 Sanskrit greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in German and Sanskrit language. German word for "Hello" is hallo or Sanskrit word for "Thank You" is धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh). Find more of such common German Greetings and Sanskrit Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
German vs Sanskrit Difficulty
The German vs Sanskrit difficulty level basically depends on the number of German Alphabets and Sanskrit 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 Sanskrit are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Sanskrit, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Sanskrit time required is 20 weeks.