ISO 639-3 · deudeu
Indo-European family
German
Deutsch
German is a language of the West Germanic branch (Indo-European), spoken in Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein and 8 more countries. Wikidata counts 76.5 m first-language speakers (2019) and 58.5 m who speak it as a second language. Wikidata describes it as “West Germanic language”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
deu- ISO 639-1
de- Glottocode
stan1295- Family
- Indo-European
- EGIDS
- 1 National
- UNESCO
- Safe
- Centre point
- 50.00, 10.00
- Wikipedia
- 356 language editions
76.5 mfirst-language speakers
58.5 msecond-language speakers
12countries
2scripts
3levels in the tree
1EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | German · Deutsch |
|---|---|
| Also called | German language |
| L1 speakers | 76,540,740 (2019) |
| L2 speakers | 58,452,300 (2019) |
| Written in | German alphabet, German Braille |
| Official in | Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Austria |
| Grammatical cases | 4 listed in Wikidata |
| Grammatical genders | 3 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 1 National1
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Safe
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to German
The branches above German, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Germanyofficial · 36 languages in the indexBelgiumofficial · 13 languages in the indexLuxembourgofficial · 4 languages in the indexLiechtensteinofficial · 4 languages in the indexSwitzerlandofficial · 12 languages in the indexAustriaofficial · 11 languages in the indexCzech Republic9 languages in the indexDenmark7 languages in the indexItaly39 languages in the indexPoland20 languages in the indexFrance84 languages in the indexRussia139 languages in the index
Also spoken in Germany
romRomaniIndo-European · 46 mDefinitely endangeredazeAzerbaijaniTurkic · 35 mSafenldDutchIndo-European · 23.1 m1 · NationalbarBavarianIndo-European · 14.1 m5 · DevelopingkazKazakhTurkic · 13.2 m1 · NationalgswAlemannicIndo-European · 10 m5 · DevelopinghyeArmenianIndo-European · 6.7 m1 · NationaldanDanishEast Scandinavian · 5.5 m1 · NationalndsLow GermanIndo-European · 5 m7 · ShiftingslvSloveneIndo-European · 2.4 m1 · National