German-speaking countries

German-speaking countries are as follows:

German is the language with the largest number of native speakers in the European Union and the official language of Germany, Austria, Belgium, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg. German is also the official language of Switzerland. In addition, about 7.5 million people in 42 countries around the world are German-speaking minorities.

In America, an immigrant country, more than 45 million people call themselves "Germans" when asked about their place of origin, of which about 6.5438+0.4 million people speak German as their mother tongue.

There are 800,000 Germans living in Russia, some of whom still speak German. Their ancestors came here in the18th century at the invitation of German-born Russian czar Catherine the Great.

There are 20,000 German Namibians living in Namibia in southwest Africa. Their mother tongue is German. They are descendants of German colonists (from 1884 to 19 15, here is a German-southwest African colony).

Sibenburgen of Saxony and Banat of Schwaben settled in Romania in12nd century and17th to19th century respectively. At 20 1, 36,000 Romanian Germans live there.

Lalluka Nelepcu, a 35-year-old journalist, is one of them: "I was born in Banat, a multicultural area in western Romania, where Germans, Hungarians, Serbs, Croats, Bulgarians, Romanians and many other ethnic groups coexist peacefully.

My grandmother is from Schwaben, Baasner. She raised me and made me speak German since I was a child. This has greatly affected my career. Now, I am reporting in Romanian German (Allgemeinen Deutschen Zeitung fü r rum? Nian beast)

He writes articles in German and produces radio programs for the German Channel of Radio timisoara. Most of my family and friends also speak German. I want to teach my son to speak German so that he can benefit from bilingualism for life. "