Language Info

German written in Latin script

Below you'll find all the characters used to write this language and all the countries where this language is used.

Standard Characters

The minimal characters required for this language

Auxiliary Characters

Additional letters (beyond the minimal set) used in foreign or technical words found in typical magazines, newspapers, etc..

Punctuation Characters

The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning

Unicode Blocks

German uses characters from the following Unicode blocks

Countries

The worldwide literate language population for German is 134,402,814 people across 27 countries.

Germany

73,340,540 people
91.00% literate in German

Netherlands

12,130,137 people
71.00% literate in German

Austria

8,491,777 people
97.00% literate in German

Poland

7,310,497 people
19.00% literate in German

Switzerland

6,012,499 people
73.00% literate in German

United Kingdom

3,886,170 people
6.00% literate in German

France

3,355,310 people
5.00% literate in German

Denmark

2,634,796 people
47.00% literate in German

Belgium

2,528,086 people
22.00% literate in German

Hungary

1,773,153 people
18.00% literate in German

Brazil

1,741,765 people
0.84% literate in German

Czechia

1,601,205 people
15.00% literate in German

United States

1,535,142 people
0.47% literate in German

Slovakia

1,198,082 people

Kazakhstan

1,187,628 people

Italy

994,204 people

Finland

993,306 people

Slovenia

828,294 people

Canada

676,850 people

Bulgaria

568,120 people

Greece

538,425 people

Lithuania

395,340 people

Luxembourg

374,301 people

Paraguay

201,368 people

Romania

45,212 people

Liechtenstein

38,244 people

Namibia

22,363 people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places, and we want to give them credit here. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes that support the language.

  1. Unicode CLDR
  2. CLDR Exemplar Characters