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