Countries
India, Nepal
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
National Language
Nepal
Germany
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
North Dakota, United States of America
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Council for German Orthography
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
Similar To
Hindi
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Albanian Languages
Alphabets in
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
hallo
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
Danke
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Wie geht es dir?
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
gute Nacht
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
guten Abend
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
guten Tag
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
guten Morgen
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Verzeihung
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
Tschüs
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Ich liebe dich
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Entschuldigung
Dialect 1
Doteli
Swiss German
Where They Speak
Nepal
Switzerland
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Swabian German
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Germany
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Texas German
Where They Speak
Nepal
Texas
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Deutsch
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Deutsch, Tedesco
French Name
népalais
allemand
German Name
Nepali
Deutsch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Germans
Origin
19 BC
6th Century AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Germanic
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early forms
Standard Forms
Nepali
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Signed German
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
deus
Glottocode
nepa1254
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
12
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic
Nepali and German 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 Nepali and German greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Nepali and German language. Nepali word for "Hello" is नमस्ते (namaste) or German word for "Thank You" is Danke. Find more of such common Nepali Greetings and German Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Nepali vs German Difficulty
The Nepali vs German difficulty level basically depends on the number of Nepali Alphabets and German 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 Nepali and German are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Nepali and German, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Nepali is 44 weeks while to learn German time required is 30 weeks.