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by nkrisc 169 days ago
It also makes it grammatically incorrect. If it were actually a question it should be, “Why are German strings everywhere?”
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The other form seems to be an Indian English colloquialism.
Do you mean "Why German strings are everywhere?" as an interrogative form?

I doubt that's specific to India. I had a teacher in high school who was Greek and who characteristically asked us "what it could be?", meaning "what could it be?".

Questions in Mandarin Chinese use the same sentence structure as their related statements. I imagine this is really common across languages.