Lingva Prismo
Lingva Prismo

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German

[ General Info | History | Political Status | Low German | German Dialects | Some German Dialect Expressions | Audio files ]

Where? — In Germany and Austria. Also spoken in about 40 other countries including Argentina, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein, Luxemburg, Paraguay, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland, USA

Language Family — German, like English is a language of the West-Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages.

How many? — About 130,000,000, including approx. 30,000,000 second language speakers. German is the official language of Germany, Austria, Belgium (regional), Denmark (regional), Italy (regional), Liechtenstein, Luxemburg and Switzerland.

Approx. 75,000,000 in Germany, 7,500,000 in Austria, 4,500,000 in Switzerland, 1,500,000 in France, 1,500,000 in Brazil, 500,000 in Poland, 400,000 in each Argentina and Canada, 250,000 in Hungary, 250,000 in Kazakhstan, 225,000 in Italy, 150,000 in each Belgium, Paraguay and Romania, 50,000 in the Czech Republic, 32,000 in Liechtenstein, 23,000 in Denmark, 9,000 in Luxembourg.



Lingva Prismo is supported by the Esperantic Studies Foundation, the Nordic Cultural Foundation and the European Youth Foundation.
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