Wie viele Menschen in Europa sprechen Deutsch als Muttersprache?
Von vladgrinch
Wie viele Menschen in Europa sprechen Deutsch als Muttersprache?
Von vladgrinch
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Germany: 81.3% (67.3 million)
Austria: 88.6% (7.1 million)
Switzerland: 61.4% (5.3 million)
France: 1.8% (1.2 million)
Poland: 0.6% (216,000)
I believe there is some presence in Romania and Turkey too
Austria should have the darkest color, not Germany.
In any case, for both of them concerning numbers.
Why is Germany darker than both Austria and Switzerland even tho its percentage is in between?
The figures are wrong for France.
There are very few Germans and Austrians in France and apart from people from the countryside aged 95, no one has a German dialect as their mother tongue anymore.
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That’s interesting, considering language knowledge EU puts German native speakers at 90% in Germany. The next 5 languages down make up 1 to 1.5% each, one of which is English. All others are less than 1% and 97.6% speak German at all.
I find this information way more interesting to see the other languages that make up the non-German.
P.S. this is up from 87% native speakers in 2012, so Idk where this data comes from.
Is this letting people pick multiple native languages?
Only 81%? What?
Really? Only 0.5% in Italy. South Tyrol alone has over half a million inhabitants, Italy in total a little less than 60 million. Half a percent feels somewhat low.
I doubt the 1.2 million figure in France, but it depends on how it it counted.
Alsatian/Mosellan is not strictly-speaking German, similar to Luxembourgish which seems to be counted separately on the map. If you exclude these dialects the total number of native German speakers is extremely low, around 100k (German and Austrian immigrants).
If Alsatian/Mosellan is included, the number corresponds to the total number of speakers approximately, but most speakers have French as their main language, some have limited skills in Alsatian.
Are the French Germans real? Or Alsatians who have lost fluency age ago? Just asking. No hate
In Austria, what else does the 12% speak ??
This seems inaccurate for a few reasons already mentioned by others. However, what’s the deal with the Netherlands being completely omitted? The two countries share a lengthy and regularly crossed border.
In the 2021 census, over 144,000 people declared themselves to be German. Therefore, this map is incorrect. Please provide a source.
why is Austria a lighter brown than Germany?
More in France than Belgium although German is the official language of a few people in Belgium.
Ugly language. The least melodic among all European languages.
I’m surprised by italy, as in southern tyrol most people seem to have a native like fluency in German.
Ahahaha, a MILLION AND TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND purported native speakers of German in France in 2025.
Complete lunacy to claim something like that. Perhaps 25 thousand at most speak some Alsace dialect.
Now do a map showing Balearic and Canary Islands.
[As of the 2022 census there are 142,551 German speakers in Hungary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germans_of_Hungary) which amounts to around 1.5%, considerably higher than some countries that were mentioned, so a strange omission.
Interestingly, the proportion of German speakers in Austria and Liechtenstein is higher than in Germany itself. BRD, results.
Germany seems somewhat concerning
Alsacian and german are not mutually intelligible, alsacian is not german.