deTechnical information about ISO 639 language code de
The table below provides technical details for the German language, designated by the de code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
German belongs to the Indo-European language family, more precisely to the Germanic subgroup. It is officially used in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and Switzerland. Additionally, it is recognized as a minority language in several countries, including Denmark and Poland. It is written using the Latin script (German alphabet). It is estimated that there are more than 95 million speakers worldwide.
*The graph shows a rough estimate of German speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
de-AT – German (Austria)
de-BE – German (Belgium)
de-CH – German (Switzerland)
de-DE – German (Germany)
de-IT – German (Italy)
de-LI – German (Liechtenstein)
de-LU – German (Luxembourg)
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