Talk:Geographical distribution of German speakers

Kazakhstan
Why are Kazakhstan Germans not discussed at greater length? ~ Dpr 22:28, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Official language
Two things:
 * in Ukraine, the only official language is Ukrainian.
 * in Romania, German is a language used at the local administration level in communes and cities where German ethnics are at least 30% of the population, not in the whole Transylvania. bogdan | Talk 08:31, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Germany has 4 official languages. But only German is spoken everywhere. However: Danish (near the Danish border), Frisian (near Northern Sea) and Sorbian (Southern Brandenburg and Northern Saxony) have the status of official languages. Only Liechtenstein has German as sole official language. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.76.6.203 (talk) 22:54, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

German dialects
The article talks as if all German minorities spoke Standard German. Only Riograndenser is mentioned. Don't people speak their original dialects or local blends instead of the standard? I guess more so among people with Swiss or Austrian background.

Changed the redirect here from German minorities
German minorities now redirects to Ethnic Germans

--Richard 18:41, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

German in Switzerland
What a poor data base. In Switzerland 62% of the population speak "native" German (talking in Dialects, written language is "High German"). Sun-kid (talk) 21:59, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

German in the United States
Shouldn't there be some sort of reference to the 'Committee on Public Information' (CPI) which persecuted Germans and German-Americans? The article makes it sound asthough the anti-German tendency was somehow justified* and merely a byproduct of the general war effort, but in reality it was more the result of a continous campaign of propaganda and defamation aimed at Germans and even German-Americans by a governmental institution. Considering that at least one German-American was killed (perhaps more) by these whipped up mobs and plenty of others were harassed or otherwise demeaned, I think it definitely deserves mention and an apropriate link.

But why were they? Not least because of the efforts of the CPI. The fact that German-Americans weren't mistreated or harassed in WW2 proves that those suspicions were largely unfounded and that time round this dubios honour fell to Japanese-Americans.
 * "and German-speaking Americans were regarded suspiciously as possible traitors"

So, I'd definitely add a link and a line in the article, like for instance "in particular (or "not least" if you want less pov) due to the efforts of the 'Committee on Public Information' *link*."

German Language in Colombia
German in Colombia is not widely spoken as in Brazil or Argentina, but there are communities that speak it as well as immigrants who came from Germany. My family is mostly German, Spanish, and Polish and i know many people in Colombia who speak the language.

German in Argentina
1.2 million Volga Germans in Argentina? I can hardly believe that. Can anyone source this claim? Unoffensive text or character 13:59, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

German language in Brazil
I grew up with both the Brazilian national language and with our ancestral German dialect spoken at home, work, community and region in Southern Brazil. After a long period of language decline in the last few decades, we are now finally seeing a slow turnaround, in my opinion in great part made possible due to the advent of the high tech communications' revolution.

Myself I have been advocating for this minority language for years, for example, creating entries here in Wikipedia... also, recently, I created a Facebook group called Riograndenser Hunsrückisch - and anyone is welcome to participate: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Riograndenser-Hunsr%C3%BCckisch/366655020086673. If you do visit that page, you will see a great deal of Portuguese being used... that is so for many reasons, but in great part it is because we are trying to get people to start using a language which is largely unwritten, and that has mostly been used within the privacy of homes, and family and community circles in the last few decades. The target population at this point are people who grew up with the language but have abandoned it permanently during teenage years as they moved to bigger cities to study and build lives away from the predominantly German settled areas; they are the link to the people who do use the language on a daily basis but who are mostly no connected to the internet in any meaningful way.

In the last few year basically two suggested writing systems have emerged and obviously only time will tell which one, if any is going to make it. Basically they are the Wiesemann and the Altenhofen methods, the latter being the one I believe should be adopted; it is somewhat like other German dialect usually are written, in other words, as close as possible to High German - if you read Portuguese you can check it out on my page here http://www.hunsriqueano.riolingo.com/blog/?p=504 ). If you want to check out how the Wiesemann method looks like, you can see it on this humor page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PlosTumHaide . Paul Beppler (talk) 23:53, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

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"Aus der Schuul komme" in section "Brazil"
The last sentence of the Brazil section reads as follows: Aus der Schuul komme, another place where the German language continues alive in some of the more of four thousand Brazilian Lutheran churches, in which some of the cults continue to be in German. Even though three (!) sources are given in support of this statement it doesn't seem to make sense: Aus der Schuul komme looks like a non-standard version of aus der Schule kommen ("to get out of school"), and there is no mention of a place with this name in any of the sources. So I wonder if someone can figure out what was originally intended and change the article accordingly. Love —LiliCharlie (talk) 22:43, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

"Aus der Schuul komme" is indeed a non-standard version of aus der Schule kommen ("to get out of school"), it is actually a term that (amongst the german speakers of Brazil) refers to the time that one finishes primary school and has his/her first Communion (the place that is being referred to is the Church). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 177.18.75.244 (talk) 01:19, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Brazil
I find this sentence confusing" "Another place where the German language continues alive is in some of the more of four thousand Brazilian Lutheran churches, in which some of the cults continue to be in German". The word "cults" doesn't make sentence – should it be "services"? Rwood128 (talk) 15:13, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Is German along with French and English the only language used on all 6 continents?
^ if yes, it might be important to note XXE XDXx (talk) 16:24, 16 September 2023 (UTC)