It consists of numerous Indo-Iranian languages, including Sanskrit, Hindi, and Farsi (Persian); Greek; Baltic languages such as Lithuanian and Latvian; Celtic languages such as Breton, Welsh, and Scottish and Irish Gaelic; Romance languages such as French, Spanish, Catalan, and Italian; Germanic languagessuch as German …

Branches. The Indo-European language family has four main living branches: Indo-Iranian, Balto-Slavic, Germanic, and Italic.

Hungarian

All the Indian languages, except Tamil, are closest to Sanskrit. This is because, they all have common ancestor, Ashokan Brahmi, from which they have evolved. Tamil on the other hand, evolved from Tamil Brahmi, which entirely has different set of characters.

One cannot but marvel at the evident similarities between Sanskrit and German. * Aksha, axle in Sanskrit, led to German Achse, which is also used in the figurative sense of a close union and alliance; * Unlike many other languages, both Sanskrit and German use all three genders: feminine, masculine and neutral.

German is most similar to other languages within the West Germanic language branch, including Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Low German (Low Saxon), Luxembourgish, Scots, and Yiddish.

Germany has already been a storehouse of Sanskrit scholars to the world. “The majority of Sanskrit scholars, including those at Harvard, California Berkeley and the UK, are Germans,” he said. But why? “Probably because we never colonised India and maintained a romantic view about it,” quipped Dr.

Like with many countries it is easy to live in them without having to speak the local language. It’s no misconception that Germans do learn English from around the age of 5, and with the huge influence of British and American TV, a lot of Germans are able to speak English. It’s more widely taught than German.

Yes, it is possible to study in Germany without knowing German, there are few universities offers few courses entirely in English (You can find those course in www.daad.de) but many of them are paid course and expensive compare to studying in German.

The official language of Germany is Standard German, with over 95 percent of the country speaking Standard German or German dialects as their first language….Minority languages

• Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian (0.01%)
• Romani (0.8%)
• Danish (0.06%)
• North Frisian (0.01%) and Saterland Frisian.

87.2%

Christianity is the dominant religion in Germany while Islam is the biggest minority religion. There are a number more faiths, however, that together account for the religions of around 3-4% of the population. Further religions practiced in Germany include: Judaism.

China

27.2%