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  2. Languages of Germany - Wikipedia

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    Northern Germany (the Low German area) is characterized by a loss of dialects: standard German is the vernacular, with very few regional features even in informal situations. [12] In Central Germany (the Middle German area) there is a tendency towards dialect loss. [12] In Southern Germany (the Upper German area) dialects are still in use. [12]

  3. Geographical distribution of German speakers - Wikipedia

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    Today German, together with French, is a common second foreign language in the western world, with English well established as a first foreign language. [ 5 ] [ 15 ] German ranks second (after English) among the best known foreign languages in the EU (on a par with French) [ 5 ] as well as in Russia . [ 16 ]

  4. List of countries and territories where German is an official ...

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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).

  5. List of countries by number of languages - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] ... Germany: 25 70 95 1.34 88,571,690 1,107,146 80,000

  6. German language - Wikipedia

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    It is the most widely spoken and official (or co-official) language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian autonomous province of South Tyrol. It is also an official language of Luxembourg, Belgium and the Italian autonomous region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, as well as a recognized national language in Namibia.

  7. List of languages by total number of speakers - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect . For example, Chinese and Arabic are sometimes considered single languages, but each includes several mutually unintelligible varieties , and so they are sometimes considered language families instead.

  8. Council for German Orthography - Wikipedia

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    With its seat being in Mannheim, Germany, the RdR was formed in 2004 as a successor to the Zwischenstaatliche Kommission für deutsche Rechtschreibung ("Intergovernmental Commission for German Orthography") in order to include both supporters and opponents of the German orthography reform of 1996 (and subsequent reforms).

  9. Languages of Europe - Wikipedia

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    A color-coded map of most languages used throughout Europe. There are over 250 languages indigenous to Europe, and most belong to the Indo-European language family. [1] [2] Out of a total European population of 744 million as of 2018, some 94% are native speakers of an Indo-European language.