German
Sean MacAvaney
By 37ophiuchi - Council of Europe - List of ratifications of the Charter for regional/minority languages Instituto de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Política Linguística - List of Brazilian municipalities with co-official languages, including Standard German as well as its dialects Hunsrückisch & Pomeranian German L1 speakers outside EuropeOther files used to compile this map File:Censusdivisions-ethnic.png File:German language by country in the US.gif File:Pennsylvania German distribution.png File:Ареал расселения немцев в России. По данным Всероссийской переписи населения 2010 года.png File:Pomeranoespiritosanto.png, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41430056
~130,000,000 speakers worldwide, ~77,000,000 as L1 [1]
By 37ophiuchi - Council of Europe - List of ratifications of the Charter for regional/minority languagesOther files used to compile this mapFile:Karte Schweizer Sprachgebiete 2015.pngFile:Deutsche Minderheit Masuren Ermland.pngFile:Abstimmung-schleswig-1920.pngFile:Sprachenkarte Suedtirol 2011.svgFile:Sprachen Im Elsass.svgFile:Frontiere linguistique mosellane.jpgFile:Language distribution Trentino 2011.pngFile:Germanii din Romania (2002).pngFile:Deutschsprachige Gemeinschaft in Belgium.svgFile:German language in gminas.pngFile:German Minority Upper Silesia.pngLandeskarte_Ungarndeutsche.jpgSteinicke et al., "Autochthonous Linguistic Minorities in the Italian Alps", Journal of Alpine Research, 99-2, 2011, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41324088
~70,000,000 in Germany [1]
Indo-European
Germanic
West-Germanic
Anglo-Frisian
Anglic
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Irminones
High German
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Synthetic
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Turkish Cree
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bandwurmworter ("tapeworm words"):
Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitäenswitwe
\frac{\text{Donau}}{\text{Danube}}\frac{\text{dampf}}{\text{steam}}\frac{\text{schiff}}{\text{ship}}\frac{\text{fahrts}}{\text{ride}}\frac{\text{gesellschafts}}{\text{company}}\frac{\text{capitans}}{\text{captain}}\frac{\text{witwe}}{\text{widow}}
SVO
Ich spreche Deutsch.
Du sprecht Deutsch.
You
Subject-Verb Agreement
speak
German.
I
speak
German.
der Band 📕📗
the (masculine)
die Band 🎸🤘
das Band 🎗🎀
volume (book)
the (feminine)
band (rock)
the (neuter)
ribbon
der Band der Band 📕📗
the (masculine)
volume (book)
of the (feminine)
band (rock)
🎸 🤘
die Bank 🏦
die Bank
the (feminine)
bank
the (feminine)
bench
Die Bank von Düsseldorf ist gut.
The (feminine)
Bank
of
Dusseldorf
is
good.
Sie sind nett.
They
are
nice.
Du bist nett.
You
(informal)
are
nice.
You
(formal)
are
nice.
Danke
Thank you
deck
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