Country Info

Germany Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 79,788,056 people (99% of Germany) that can read or write at least one language.

25 Writing Systems used in Germany

German (Latin)

de-latn
language code
73,340,540
people

English (Latin)

en-latn
language code
51,580,160
people

French (Latin)

fr-latn
language code
14,506,920
people

Bavarian (Latin)

bar-latn
language code
13,700,980
people

Low German (Latin)

nds-latn
language code
9,671,280
people

Dutch (Latin)

nl-latn
language code
7,253,460
people

Italian (Latin)

it-latn
language code
5,641,580
people

Spanish (Latin)

es-latn
language code
4,835,640
people

Russian (Cyrillic)

ru-cyrl
language code
4,835,640
people

Main-Franconian (Latin)

vmf-latn
language code
4,835,640
people

Turkish (Latin)

tr-latn
language code
2,014,850
people

Swiss German (Latin)

gsw-latn
language code
1,853,661
people

Danish (Latin)

da-latn
language code
1,611,880
people

Swabian (Latin)

swg-latn
language code
805,940
people

Croatian (Latin)

hr-latn
language code
636,692
people

Kurdish (Latin)

ku-latn
language code
531,920
people

Greek (Greek)

el-grek
language code
306,257
people

Colognian (Latin)

ksh-latn
language code
241,782
people

Polish (Latin)

pl-latn
language code
233,722
people

Upper Sorbian (Latin)

hsb-latn
language code
12,895
people

Northern Frisian (Latin)

frr-latn
language code
9,671
people

Lower Sorbian (Latin)

dsb-latn
language code
7,011
people

Eastern Frisian (Latin)

frs-latn
language code
2,014
people

Saterland Frisian (Latin)

stq-latn
language code
967
people

Palatine German (Latin)

pfl-latn
language code
0
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR