Hallo!
say it: “HAH-lo”
German
in its own words: Deutsch
- Speakers
- 135 million (estimate)
- Family
- Indo-European – Germanic
- Vitality
- Safe
- Where it is spoken
- Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands and 4 more
- Script
- Latin
- Official language
- Austria, Belgium, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Denmark (regional), Poland (regional)
Fun fact
German forms compounds of almost unlimited length. The longest attested words in official texts have more than sixty letters.