Germanic-speaking world

The Germanic-speaking world[1][2] is the part of the world where Germanic languages are either official, co-official, or significantly used, comprising Germanic-speaking Europe as well as parts of North America, Germanic-speaking Africa, Australia and Germanic-speaking Asia.

Not to be confused with German speaking world.

Distribution of the Germanic languages in the world
Distribution of the Germanic languages in Europe:
West Germanic languages
  Upper German
  Low German
  Dutch
  Frisian
  English
  Scots
North Germanic languages
  Icelandic
  Faroese
  Norwegian
  Swedish
  Danish
Dots indicate areas where multilingualism is common.

It includes, for example, the English-, German-, Dutch-, Danish-, Swedish- and Norwegian-speaking communities.

Over 200 million Europeans (some 30%) speak a Germanic language natively. At the same time 515 million speak a Germanic language natively in the whole world (6.87%) (the plurality of whom are speakers of North American English, with approximately 245 million native speakers).

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