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                          “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”



                                                              ‐ Ludwig Wittgenstein







                   GENERAL INFORMATION


                     Number of speakers:  123 million speakers worldwide

                     Writing system: Latin alphabet; 26 standard letters plus three vowels with umlauts (Ä/ä,


                       Ö/ö, and Ü/ü) and ß.

                     Language Family: Indo‐European—Germanic—West Germanic—High German

                     Official language in: Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Belgium,


                       Italy (South Tyrol)
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