Countries
India, Pakistan
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
Pakistan
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Pakistan
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
India
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
  
Council for German Orthography
  
Interesting Facts
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
  
- 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
Arabic and Hindi Languages
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Urdu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
خوش آمديد
  
hallo
  
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
براہ مہربانی
  
bitte
  
Sorry
معاف کرنا
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
الوداع
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Dakhini
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
India
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00
  
12
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
India
  
Germany
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Rekhta
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
South Asia
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
104.00 million
  
15
229.00 million
  
8
Native Speakers
61.00 million
  
19
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
43.00 million
  
14
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
اُردُو
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Bihari
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
ourdou
  
allemand
  
German Name
Urdu
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Germans
  
Origin
12th Century CE
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Indic
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ur
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
urd
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
urd
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
urd
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
urdu1245
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Urdu and German Speaking population
Urdu and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Urdu and German languages can be compared. The total count of Urdu and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Urdu language is 0.99 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Urdu and German on Urdu vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Urdu and German Language Codes
Urdu and German language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Urdu and German Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.