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Welcome to the Wikilang introduction page for the German language, or as we call it, Deutsch!

An Introduction to the Language

German (Deutsch,[ˈdɔʏtʃ]) is a West Germanic language, thus related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. It is one of the world's major languages and the most widely spoken first language in the European Union. German sports a number of widely differing dialects, some of which are still under debate over whether or not they should even be called dialects of German. Dialectical differences in German consist mainly of pronunciation and casal variations.

Family

Indo-European

• Germanic
  • West Germanic
    • German

Spoken in

German an official language in Austria; Belgium; Province of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy; Germany; Liechtenstein; Luxembourg and Switzerland. There are approximately 105 million native speakers and 80 million non-native speakers.