Some peoples further east like in finland use the term based on saxons another case of extending the name of one germanic tribe to the whole lot.

Deutschland in other languages. The official language of germany is standard german with over 95 percent of the country speaking standard german or german dialects as their first language. For example in the german language the country is known as deutschland from the old high german diutisc in spanish as alemania and in french as allemagne from the name of the alamanni tribe in italian as germania from the latin germania in polish as niemcy from the protoslavic ne. In other languages it became deutsch in german dutch in english duits in dutch and also tysk in swedish and tedesco in italian.

This figure includes speakers of northern low saxon a recognized minority or regional language that is not considered separately from standard german in statisticsrecognized minority languages have official status as well usually in. Language ways to say germany. Minority languages include sorbian spoken by 009 in the east of.

Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. The official language of germany is german with over 95 of the population speaking german as their first language. Low german is one of the minority languages of germany.

D ae itschland yiddish. However i know at least five different names now for germany in the other languages that i know. The west germanic language is spoken mainly in.

Because of germanys long history as a non united region of distinct tribes and states before 1871 there are many widely varying names of germany in different languages more so than for any other european nation. Basically there are a lot of different names for germany and germans. Deutschland german germany english tyskland swedish allemagne french niemcy poland saksa finnish.