German
120.000.000 speakers
12 language specific characters
ISO 639 code: deu
German is a Germanic language with about 120 million speakers in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Belgium, Italy, France, Denmark, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the USA, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Australia, South Africa and Namibia.
The earliest known examples of written German date from the 8th century AD and consist of fragments of an epic poem, the Song of Hildebrand, magical charms and German glosses in Latin manuscripts. A short Latin-German dictionary, the Abrogans, was written during the 760s.
German literature started to take off during the 12th and 13th centuries in the form of poems, epics and romances. Well known examples include the epic Nibelungenlied (the Song of the Nibelungs) and Gottfried von Straßburg's Tristan. The language used is now known as mittelhochdeutsche Dichtersprache (Middle High German poetic language). During this period Latin was gradually replaced by German as the language of official documents.
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wikipedia.org, omniglot.com, evertype.com & ethnologue.com
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Sei kein Kuckuck wenn du eine Nachtigall bist. Sei keine Nachtigall oder Drossel wenn Du ein Hund bist. Aber jeder kann Geräusche machen. Wir sind Underware.

translation kindly provided by Akiem Helmling