Written German is quite uniform but spoken dialects vary considerably, sometimes to the point where communication becomes a problem. Like the other Germanic languages, German is a member of the Indo-European family. There are about one and a half million speakers of German in the United States, 500,000 in Canada and sizable colonies as well in South America and such far-flung countries as Namibia and Kazakhstan. Additionally it is spoken in eastern France, in the region formerly known as Alsace-Lorraine, in northern Italy in the region of Alto Adige, and also in eastern Belgium, Luxembourg, and the principality of Liechtenstein. and is one of the four official languages of Switzerland.
It is the national language of both Germany and Austria. German is one of the main cultural languages of the Western world, spoken by approximately 100 million people.
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