| Also Known As: High German,Hochdeutsch,Deutsch,Tedesco,German, Standard
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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..... full article at Wikipedia |
Location of German, Standard Language Speakers
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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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