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German is the official language of six countries, all of which lie in central and western Europe. These countries (with the addition of South Tyrol of Italy) also form the Council for German Orthography and are referred to as the German Sprachraum (German language area).
Pages in category "Countries and territories where German is an official language" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The largest North Germanic languages are Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian, which are in part mutually intelligible and have a combined total of about 20 million native speakers in the Nordic countries and an additional five million second language speakers; since the Middle Ages, however, these languages have been strongly influenced by Middle ...
Germanic relates to the ancient Germani or the broader Germanic group. [1] In modern German, the ancient Germani are called Germanen and their country Germania is Germanien, and there are clearly distinct terms for modern Germans (Deutsche) and modern Germany (Deutschland).
East Germanic languages; North Germanic languages; West Germanic languages; They all descend from Proto-Germanic, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European. South Germanic languages, an attempt to classify some of the West Germanic languages into a separate group, is rejected by the overwhelming majority of scholars. † denotes extinct languages.
The North Germanic languages are spoken in Nordic countries and include Swedish (Sweden and parts of Finland), Danish , Norwegian , Icelandic , Faroese (Faroe Islands), and Elfdalian (in a small part of central Sweden).
Germany, [e] officially the Federal Republic of Germany, [f] is a country in Central Europe.It lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen constituent states have a total population of over 82 million in an area of 357,596 km 2 (138,069 sq mi), making it the most populous member state of the European Union.
Official revisions of some of the rules from 1901 were not issued until the controversial German orthography reform of 1996 was made the official standard by governments of all German-speaking countries. [35] Media and written works are now almost all produced in Standard German which is understood in all areas where German is spoken.