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.
  
- Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
- Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Kannada Language
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tulu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Kannada Script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Namaskara
  
Thank You
Danke
  
Mast Upakara.
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
Yencha Ullar?
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
yedde rathre
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
yedde baiyya
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
yedde madhyana
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
yedde kaande
  
Please
bitte
  
Daya maltadu
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
Yenna thapu aandu
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
Barpe
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
Kshamisi
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Brahmin tulu
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Tamil Nadu
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Jain
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Tamil Nadu
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Girijan
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Tamil Nadu
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
1.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
1.70 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
Not Available
  
Native Name
Deutsch
  
Tulu
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
  
French Name
allemand
  
Not Available
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Not Available
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Tuluva
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
14
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Dravidian 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
  
Tulu
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
tcy
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
tulu1258
  
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
  
German and Tulu 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 Tulu greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in German and Tulu language. German word for "Hello" is hallo or Tulu word for "Thank You" is Mast Upakara.. Find more of such common German Greetings and Tulu Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
German vs Tulu Difficulty
The German vs Tulu difficulty level basically depends on the number of German Alphabets and Tulu 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 Tulu are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Tulu, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Tulu time required is 44 weeks.