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<tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> High German,Hochdeutsch,Deutsch,Tedesco,German, Standard

<b>Description:</b>

German (Deutsch, [dɔʏ̯tʃ] (help·info)) is a West Germanic language, thus related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. It is one of the world's major languages and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union. Around the world, German is spoken by approximately 105 million native speakers and also by about 80 million non-native speakers. Standard German is widely taught in schools, universities and Goethe Institutes worldwide.
German is spoken primarily in Germany (first language for more than 95% of the population), Austria (89%) and Switzerland (64%) together with Liechtenstein, Luxembourg (D-A-CH-Li-Lux) constituting the countries where German is the majority language.
Other European German-speaking communities are found in Northern Italy (Bolzano-Bozen), in the East Cantons of Belgium, in the French Alsace region which often was traded between Germany and France in history and in some border villages of the former South Jutland County (in German, Nordschleswig, in Danish, Sønderjylland) of Denmark.
Some German-speaking communities still survive in parts of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and above all Russia and Kazakhstan, although forced<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=11884 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
<tr><td><h2>Location of German, Standard Language Speakers</h2>
<googlemap zoom="1" width=400 height=300 lat="49.317022" lon="9.657629" type="map">
47.162186, 9.525958, Liechtenstein
51.000000, 9.000000, Germany
49.756218, 6.096975, Luxembourg
46.863730, 8.102842, Switzerland
48.120000, 16.220000, Austria
53.000000, 9.000000, Europe</googlemap>
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<tr><td><h2>Rosetta Document Collection</h2>
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<tr><td>Genesis Translation:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_deu_gen-3 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_deu_gen-3 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>2</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_deu_gen-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_deu_gen-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Orthography:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_deu_ortho-2 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_deu_ortho-2 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Universal Declaration Of Human Rights:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_deu_undec-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_deu_undec-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Vocabulary:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_deu_vocab-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_deu_vocab-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
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<h2>Overview</h2>

<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/germany Germany]</td></tr>

<tr><td><b>Spoken In: </b></td><td>

<b><i>Countries: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/germany Germany], [http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/austria Austria], [http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/switzerland Switzerland], [http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/liechtenstein Liechtenstein], [http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/luxembourg Luxembourg], [http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/holy_roman_empire Holy Roman Empire], [http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/west_germany West Germany], [http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/second_polish_republic Second Polish Republic]
<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/europe Europe]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-1 Code: </b></td><td>de</td></tr>

<tr><td><b>ISO 639-2 Code: </b></td><td>ger</td></tr>

<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>deu</td></tr>

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<tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
[[All Languages]]

  [[Indo-European Group]]

    [[Germanic Group]]

      [[West Germanic Group]]

        [[High German Group]]

          [[German Group]]

            [[Middle German Group]]

              [[East Middle German Group]]

                <b>[[German, Standard Language]]</b>

                  [[Schwyzerdütsch Language]]

                  [[Swabian Language]]

                  [[Bavarian Language]]

                  [[East Franconian German]]

                  [[Hessian dialect]]

                  [[Lorraine Franconian]]

                  [[Ripuarian]]

                  [[Moselle Franconian]]

                  [[Thuringian]]

                  [[Saxon, Upper Language]]

                  [[Low Franconian languages]]

                  [[Sathmarisch]]

                  [[Siebenbürgisch]]

                  [[Wymysorys]]

                  [[Brazilian German]]

                  [[West Central German]]

                  [[German, Colonia Tovar Language]]

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