Translation English-German

German, Standard

A language of Germany

ISO 639-3: deu

Population	75,300,000 in Germany (1990). Population total all countries: 90,294,110.
Region	Also in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Moldova, Mozambique, Namibia, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russian Federation (Europe), Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan.
Alternate names	Deutsch, Tedesco
Dialects	Major related language areas are Bavarian [bar], Schwäbian [swg], Alemannisch [gsw], Mainfränkisch [vmf], Hessisch, Palatinian, Rheinfränkisch, Westfälisch [wep], Saxonian, Thuringian, Brandenburgisch, and Low Saxon [nds]. Many varieties are not mutually inherently intelligible. Our present treatment is incomplete. Standard German is one High German variety, which developed from the chancery of Saxony, gaining acceptance as the written standard in the 16th and 17th centuries. High German refers to dialects and languages in the upper Rhine region. Lexical similarity: 60% with English, 29% with French.
Classification	Indo-European, Germanic, West, High German, German, Middle German, East Middle German
Language use	National language. 28,000,000 L2 speakers.
Language development	Taught in primary and secondary schools. Fully developed. Bible: 1466–2004.
Writing system	Latin script. Latin script, Fraktur variant, used until 1940. Runic script, no longer in use.
Comments	Based equally on East Upper German and East Middle German. Christian.

Also spoken in:

Austria

Language name	German, Standard
Population	7,500,000 in Austria (J. A. Hawkins 1987).
Dialects	Kärntnerisch.
Language use	National language. Source: Lewis, M. Paul (ed.), 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com/.