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The European countries with German-speaking majorities are Germany (95%, 78.3 million), Austria (89%, 8.9 million), and Switzerland (65%, 4.6 million), also known as the "D-A-CH" countries, an acronym for Deutschland (Germany), Austria, and Confoederatio Helvetica (the Swiss Confederation).
The following is a list of the countries and territories where German is an official language (also known as the Germanosphere). It includes countries that have German as (one of) their nationwide official language (s), as well as dependent territories with German as a co-official language.
Germany has the most significant number of German speakers of any country worldwide. German is the country’s official language, and it is spoken as the native tongue and first language by more than 95 percent of the population.
Germany, Austria, and Switzerland occupy the top positions in our ranking, concentrating 81% of German speakers. In these countries, German is also the official language. Russia ranks fourth with 2.1 million speakers, followed by the United States with 2 million.
The six countries that have German as their official language, in alphabetical order, are: Austria, Belgium, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Switzerland. Over 78% of the world’s total German speakers live in Germany.
The German language (native name: Deutsch) has its roots in the Indo-European language family. With 76.12 million native speakers, German has the highest prevalence in Germany. A total of about 97.36 million people worldwide speak German as their mother tongue.
Officially, there are six German speaking countries in Europe: Germany – more than 80 million speakers. Austria – 8 million speakers. Switzerland – 4.6 million speakers. Belgium – 75.000 speakers.
Three EU countries have German as their sole nationwide official language: the small principality of Liechtenstein, where 35,000 people speak German; Austria, with around 7.5 million...
The largest population of German-speaking individuals living outside of Germany can be found in Austria, where German is the official language. Here, nearly 8 million individuals (93% of the population) speak it as their native language and another 516,000 can speak German as their second language.
Here is a list of the top German speaking countries in the world. 1. Germany. German is Germany’s national and official language, and over 95 percent of the people speak it as their primary language. Germany’s dominant language is standard German. Accordingly, speakers of Northern Low Saxon, a West Low German dialect, are included in this ...