A regional variety of German carrying its own phonology and vocabulary, and for the Bavarian and Alemannic dialect continua substantial grammatical divergence, while remaining mutually intelligible with standard German in whole or in large part. Belongs here: Austrian German, Bavarian German and Swiss German, each recorded in this atlas's own graph as Descends From German. Does not belong here: a variety descending from any language other than German.
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1. Wikipedia: German Language
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German is one of the major languages of the world, with nearly 100 million native speakers and over 130 million total speakers as of 2024.
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