Where Is German Spoken Around the World?

German isn't exacly as widely spoken as English or French, but there are still several perhaps surprising places where one can hear German spoken (well... not counting any German tourists)
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[@user-mg2ip8cr8z]

U missed out on Italy which has a whole region of German speakers as well as other smaller groups .

[@KhAnubis]

Wait crap I mentioned South Tyrol in the first draft!

[@somestrangechannel6797]

@@KhAnubis I was about to say ... largest region outside of DACH to speak German...

[@user-mg2ip8cr8z]

@@KhAnubis but this is not the first draft , so no its not crap .and were exactly does anything say this is a second or what ever number draft ??? Are we meant to read your mind or something . U are a very rude person .

[@chad2522]

@@user-mg2ip8cr8z Are you dumb?

[@GlowingRoseDoesGeo]

@@KhAnubis Slovenia too- Slovenia has a large amount of German speakers from the days of the Austrian Empire

[@JohnyJ25]

I was waiting on Mallorca, way to keep me waiting till the end 😂😂😂

[@sizanogreen9900]

well, it is not really a foreign place... more like an overseas territory. Thanks be to the EU for making this awkward separation of territory a non issue.

[@prywatne4733]

​@@sizanogreen99009:09

[@oppionatedindividual8256]

@@sizanogreen9900 it’s Spain. It’s not even an overseas territory, it’s just Spain. As Spanish as Madrid.

[@1224chrisng]

I thought Mallorca was a british colony

[@sizanogreen9900]

@@oppionatedindividual8256 I know. Saying that mallorca is the 17th state of germany is kind of a joke tho here because of the shit ton of tourists that go there.

[@parmentier7457]

I am Dutch and in 2015 I visited friends who live in the south of Brazil (Porto Alegre region). I don't speak Portuguese, but many (young) Brazilians don't speak English either. I speak a little Spanish, so I was able to make myself understood a little. And then I stayed in Santa Cruz, where I met (old) relatives of my friends who spoke German. So it was a crazy but fun situation that I spoke German in Brazil. the older generations Brazilians who spoke German were born in Brazil, but their parents were German immigrants.

[@giuseppelogiurato5718]

I've noticed that you've adopted a slower mode of speech/narration.. I REALLY appreciate you taking your time and enunciating the words slowly enough for old folks like me to hear and understand (we actually need ALL the syllables and phonemes and aspirated dental fricatives, unlike the younger crowd)... Your content is always REALLY interesting and entertaining, so I'm glad that you are slowing down your cadence for those of us ESL folks who were having a tough time keeping up with the extremely shortened form of speech that you previously used. Thank you, and please know that I'll always be a subscriber, no matter how fast and garbled you might speak. Khanubis channel is gonna go places; is about to get BIG! 😊❤

[@David_The_Texan_youtuber382]

Yes talking fast is not okay. Its never ever okay to talk fast since fast talking is no good. When people that talk slower and slow down that puts a smile on my face.

[@sexygeek8996]

Play the videos at a slower speed if they are too fast for you. Talking slowly wastes time.

[@Homer-OJ-Simpson]

@@David_The_Texan_youtuber382SLOW DOWN

[@aloetragedy1568]

holy nerd

[@giuseppelogiurato5718]

@@David_The_Texan_youtuber382 for sure; my granny used to tell us, "say what you mean, and mean what you say"... There is no need to rush. (I'm from Nevada, and apparently we speak more quickly than folks in Texas, especially the younger people, which is natural, I suppose.)

[@norre_]

My girlfriend’s family speaks German as a native language, although their Portuguese is really good. I’ve always found endearing that they kept their culture alive even through Vargas’ brutal rule that tried to extinguish their tongue.

[@carlwheezer1030]

And you're typing this in English. I have been cucked by American schools

[@norre_]

@@carlwheezer1030 It is God’s chosen language.

[@carlwheezer1030]

@norre_ well then I thank God its the only language we can learn here 🥲

[@norre_]

@@carlwheezer1030 Look I’ve only gotten around English because it’s useful, don’t worry about not being able to access other languages, they’re not as content rich as English is.

[@tavish4699]

@@norre_ not as content rich? german language can litterary put sentences into a single word

[@epicnicity916]

I'm from the state of Espirito Santo from Brazil and when making my family tree, I found out that my great grandmother was german

[@ZaKRo-bx7lp]

Here in Panama we have a small German community in the capital, mostly coming in recent years. I have also begun learning German myself.

[@svenmuller5332]

re you in need of German school teachers? I cant stand Europe anymore and south/middle America seems nice

[@ZaKRo-bx7lp]

@@svenmuller5332 If you have a teaching degree you can come here and give classes in private schools. You just need to speak a decent level of Spanish. You can ask at the German embassy for contacts and how to validate your title.

[@takanobaierun]

'Speaking German' is, well, often debatable. I once chatted to a woman in Florida that told me she knew a little German. When I waited for her to actually say something in German or elaborate on her statement, she just stared at me. When I tried to ease her in and said something in German, she left.

[@JimJones-kj8jk]

I know a little German. He's over there.

[@takanobaierun]

@@JimJones-kj8jk Was waiting vor that!

[@Pero-zl4jp]

That’s an American you can’t count that (as an American)

[@locorum9103]

Also often people in Europe have 'dialects' that aren't intelligible with the standard language

[@zaskiaalsakila7248]

And worse he Totally ignored and didn't mention people who can use German and needs to use German due to their work. Such as Soviet and Russian intelligence officers, who numbered in high hundreds of thousands... KGB, GRU, SVR, FSB those types. Very possibly, SBu and GUr also have high numbers of German "users", those are intel services of Ukraine...

[@VV.48]

7:20 he is probably referring to "Menschenskinder", not "Mensch und Kinder"

[@hrillingday]

Kinder chocolate

[@Crocodylus_niloticus]

I Think you forgot south Tirol .

[@GwainSagaFanChannel]

He also forgot to mention the Netherlands with the Low German speaking provinces in the Eastern parts of the country

[@user-mg2ip8cr8z]

As well as the sth Tyrol Germans there are smaller groups of Bavarian Germans and Weiser Germans in Italy as well .

[@bananenmusli2769]

@@user-mg2ip8cr8z "Bavarian Germans" is an oxymoron

[@paulmelde919]

Here’s my question: outside of the German speaking triangle of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and adjoining areas (eg South Tyrol) are there any places where German is an everyday full working language? By “working language”, I mean a language used everyday to conduct business and goes beyond clubs, schools, churches etc?

[@user-mg2ip8cr8z]

@@paulmelde919 Namibia and sth America have some areas

[@cetofox]

0:51 you would have to say "die Deutsch sprechen", sorry German sentence structure is something else haha Great vid!

[@KhAnubis]

Actually that time I was just effing around, but still

[@takanobaierun]

Guess that was on purpose

[@Yashodhan1917]

"Die Deutsch sprechen" has a different meaning than "Sprechen die Deutsch". The first one says "Those who speak German". He wanted to say "Where you can find people speaking German", so it should be "Where you can find people die Deutsch sprechen", but he translated "speak the German" as "sprechen die Deutsch". I am trying to say that the word "die" is used differently in these two sentences. He wanted to use it as "the" and in your correction you have used it as "who". Languages requiring word orders are so tiring.

[@cg_pizza]

​@@Yashodhan1917There's nothing more beautiful than the German correctness. Du machst uns alle Ehre, Bruder!😂

[@Yashodhan1917]

@@cg_pizza haha, danke schön aber ich bin kein Deutscher.

[@I_am_somebody_1234]

Fun fact, Costa Rica also had a few germans coming to our country, They stablished colonies mostly in Sarapiquí, Limón and San Ramón. Their influence is most well known in the education department (with the Goethe Institute and the Humboldt School being big examples) and in beer (Joseph Traube was one of the first people to start the beer production in CR in 1888, with the "Cervecería El Globo").

[@BananaRama1312]

Yo im Happy you got some brau knowhow by my forefathers 😂👌 prost

[@firespacecostarica9303]

Glad you point that out. Here in Puerto Viejo area I come across a bunch of german relicts.

[@apollothefirst]

Namhae German Village was settled by German immigrants and Koreans who worked in Germany moving back to Korea. They created this village due to the fact that the majority of Koreans who worked in Germany worked as Coal Miners and married German women. I couldn’t find a lot of information besides this. And, as a lot of others have mentioned, SOUTH TYROL

[@Judah132]

Aww, just checked it out. It looks actually very adorable.

[@Miguelitojones1]

my brazilian state of Espirito Santo has some of the last speakers of Eastern Pomeranian along with wisconsin or something

[@bostil1974]

I live in Santa Catarina and I'm learning Hunsrückisch, a German dialect spoke by the German immigrants in South of Brazil. I want to live in a Brazilian city (if I can't live in Europe in the future), where the people speak Hunsrückisch

[@zgrad25]

This is so cool to hear cuz the Hunsrück region is not far from where I live in a Germany and I heard the dialect often and I would have never imagined people in Brazil speaking it!

[@ekesandras1481]

there is also a Tyrolian village in Espirito Santo - a very poor and little known one. The locals even call it "Pobre Europa".

[@tysonplett3328]

You mentioned Mennonites in passing a bunch of times. If you want a cool video idea, Mennonite migration is a truly fascinating topic. There are Mennonite communities all over the globe, and I am from a historically Mennonite area in Manitoba, Canada. My dad's family is from Mexico, and my wife's parents were from a Mennonite colony in Paraguay. They bring a type of Low German wherever they go, which is a fascinating language.

[@C0lon0]

Well, my entire family from all sides are the majority of pomeranians and a few polish lost in the middle, my city/region in Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil is a very isolated pomeranian community due to discrimination between the "aristocrats" with portuguese blood from the farms and the major city a few kilometers away towards the pomeranians that cultivated potatoes (largest producer of potatoes from the end of the 19th century to the early of the 20th century in the entire South America) instead of the more "superior" cattle farming and business of the city, so pomeranian is still very strong alongside with the lutheran church and you can find people that speak the Hochdeutsche, saddly the polish language is extinct since the 19th century.

[@amehak1922]

My dad learned German in college and talked to any German he happened to run into.

[@KhAnubis]

Relatable

[@ellidominusser1138]

How many did he run into?

[@binchamers]

I ran into an american man that spoke german and after I told him in perfect english I was dutch he started speaking german to me still.

[@amehak1922]

@@ellidominusser1138 over the decades? A dozen or so.

[@pangolimazul6055]

Albeit less known another state in Brazil has a really big german community, Espirito Santo. Espirito Santo even has many municipalities which hold a pomeranian dialect of german as a recognized language. Other comunities of germans can be found across the country as well in olaces like São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, though with less numbers and percentages.

[@mfaizsyahmi]

Wishing for longevity to our Pomeranian brothers, so that one day they could hopefully go back to Pomerania not as outsiders or foes but as friends.

[@Mimi.1001]

@@mfaizsyahmi Speaking of Pomerania, Poland still has a small German-speaking community actually (which Khanubis didn't mention), although they are largely concentrated in (Upper) Silesia, not Pomerania. They even had a representative in the Sejm until recently!

[@BananaRama1312]

​@@mfaizsyahmihell yeah Brother you and those Folks will Always have a Home in Our beautiful Heimat 🔥🔥

[@ghiorghetatarescu3649]

you failed to mention that Romania's president is literally a German, who speaks Saxon

[@Homer-OJ-Simpson]

The German immigrants in Mexico during the 19th century were a big factor on the culture, especially in the north. They started much of the beer culture and beer companies as well as much of the regional Mexican music is influence by the polka and accordion that was brought by German immigrants and central Europeans

[@MarcHatePage]

there is also a german speaking community in Venezuela!

[@joklit]

I come from Brazil and my father's side grandpa claims a somewhat unclear German anscestry, all because of one of our surnames. Despite no clear indications of a direct German anscestor, my grandpa took it upon himself to honour it and many years ago he settled down in a tiny little town in the southwest corner of Minas Gerais (a state in the southeast part of the country). He built a house there along with a quaint little brewery, where he rekindled his hobby of brewing beer (lager, pilsner, schwarzbier, etc.) at a more industrial scale. The buildings were all done in a South-German/Austrian style and the townsfolk really dug it. Many years later, now the town has tons of buildings done in this style and tourists now think that it was originally settled by German immigrants. I think a lot of cases like this happened throughout the Americas in the last half century or so.

[@BananaRama1312]

Bro that Sounds fuckin awesome big ups from the Heimat in franconia dawg👌💯

[@ScrollE-sports]

What is the name of the city? Monte Verde?

[@joklit]

@@ScrollE-sports Delfim Moreira

[@barraman.]

I'm Spanish and I m glad that I stayed until the end

[@kuroazrem5376]

Chile, Uruguay, and Venezuela also have German communities.

[@JoeBidenOfficial]

I have german speaking family in São Paulo, Brazil! They originate in Austria (Although they were originally Protestants fleeing France many centuries ago)

[@MarcHarder]

I'm from northern Paraguay, where a large chunk of the population speaks Plautdietsch. My dad lived there until his thirties and never learned either of the country's official languages, only Plautdietsch and German. Ek sie fon nórd Paraguay, wór en gooder deel fon de menshe Platdietsh ryden. Mien fåder wånd dór bot siene daartger jare en lierd niemålz eint fon de twee afitziaale sprake fon dat lant, må Platdietsh en Hódietsh.

[@garygartenzwerg9870]

Et is scheen to seeen, dat de Dütsen en't Utland usere Spraak an't leeven holdet. Över hier süelvst de olderen Lütt küert Platt blots selten.

[@MarcHarder]

@@garygartenzwerg9870 Fo laang waart geseenen as må domet Hódietsh, en wier im gefar fon uetsarven. Fondagshendaagh wart dat åber as seltz ne sprak geseene, en fyle liere night meier Hódietsh, åber nue es dat mäs night meier mäglight to lyven åne uk Änglish oder Spaanish to lieren. For a long time, the language was viewed as just bad German, and it was endangered of dying out. Nowadays it's viewed as its own language, and many people no longer learn German, but it's almost no longer possible to get by without also learning English or Spanish.

[@ellidominusser1138]

Ich hab 85% davon verstanden

[@firespacecostarica9303]

Fabulous 😮

[@jamespyle777]

The small community of Freistatt, Missouri still has an Erntefest every middle of August.

[@michaelengelhardt5336]

A few towns in Minnesota used German as the primary language in school into the early 1900s

[@tobirates916]

As always, well done, interesting and informative. Love when a Sunday includes a new KhAnubis video!

[@MuiltiLightRider]

The Brazil bait and switch 😂

[@suzanna48991]

§hut up, American

[@kingdiamondnumsei4565]

i'm from rio grande do sul, a brazillian state that is like "german capital" i clicked in the video just by that reason.

[@GreenPartyofMalaysia]

I deeply in appreciation and gratitude for the amount of research you had put in for this video, which was the reason I decided to subscribe. Thank you!

[@frenches1995]

as beeing a native german speaker (born and raised in Switzerland) and also a citizen of Brasil (some grandparents are from there) I want to visit some german speaking communities in Brazil to see what it's like.

[@hrillingday]

You find alot Video here in KZbin from Blumenau. Blumenau is also part of Mannheim 😊

[@frenches1995]

@@hrillingday yeah but it's one thing to see about them on youtube and it's completely another thing to experience it first hand!

[@zgrad25]

There are still a bunch of people speaking sort of a German Creol in Papua New Guinea or so, called Unserdeutsch

[@matthewbrotman2907]

Of course, the most famous German-Latin-American is Gisele Bündchen.

[@alandemaio3043]

There’s also Alisson Becker, Liverpool’s goalkeeper and Gustavo Kuerten, three times Roland Garros winner

[@Admiral-General_Aladeen]

There were actually germans all over eastern europe before WW2 but the soviets wanted revenge and they all got killed or forcibly relocated. It's a huge difference if you look at a map

[@BananaRama1312]

Yeah and None Talks about it and there is No rememberence culture about that Side of the ppl at all honestly sickening

[@rickbhattacharya2334]

They say you can find a lot of German speakers in Argentina, especially the older generations 😶‍🌫️

[@HarvestStore]

Great video.

[@MrTom-xk5vh]

You totally forgot SUED TIROL! And Colonia Tovar in Venezuela and South Australia with Hahndorf still featuring plenty of German speakers.

[@samstromberg5271]

Hey man you make really good videos, keep up the good work!

[@loadingbmode7617]

There are also Germans speakers in kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.

[@LucasSchimmel]

I'm a German-speaking Brazilian. My family speaks standard high german. We're still around, not as large part of population as it was 100 years ago and despite the best attempts by the Brazilian government, but we're here. From Paraná, still in the south but not SC or RS, where we are mostly associated with Italians and Slavs. Honestly, the reason why we still speak it is simply because my grandparents were late arrivals - my mother side of the family has been in here for longer, from 19th century, but they lost the language around the 1940s when Brazil made speaking german, teaching german, german publications, etc, illegal. However, my paternal grandparents came here in the 1950s to work in the wood extraction industry as the eastern part of my state was settled, and since by the time they got here the worst of Brazil's supression of foreign languages was done, we managed to preserve it. It's my home language, and my children go to a bilingual German-Portuguese school, so we persevere.

[@Adam-326]

Bro… just go to Germany or speak Brazilian. It’s not a big deal.

[@chad2522]

@@Adam-326 Yea, Just give up your heritage and family right? It's not a big deal though.

[@Adam-326]

@@chad2522 Exactly. Either take the trip to Germany or just speak the language of the rest of the country. Problem solved.

[@chad2522]

@@Adam-326 So by that logic, Should everyone in Brazil not speak the multiple languages of the original natives? You sound slow.

[@Adam-326]

@@chad2522 No, they should speak Portuguese. It’s the natives that should assimilate at this point.

[@loadingbmode7617]

Did he mention South Tyrol or not.

[@peterkesseler9898]

He forgot to mention South Tyrol (Süd-Tirol). More than 60% of the population there speaks german as a mother tongue.

[@WalshTV]

There's an extremely remote town in West Virginia called Helvetia that maintains a lot of Swiss culture

[@treakzy_9594]

this is interesting! thank you for the upload and content

[@michaelowino228]

Good video.

[@caseclosed9342]

I’m glad you mentioned that there are Germans in Latin America. I actually dated a girl in college whose family was from Brazil and part of her family was German (she didn’t speak German but some of her grandparents did). Also, I went to college with an international student from Mexico who was German Mexican. I would have never guessed she was Mexican because she was a brunette with light skin. I think she could speak German though I never heard her speak it (she spoke English really well in addition to Spanish).

[@louisderfert9484]

Hey, fan from Germany here :D at 1:40 - when you blend in the subtle (but nice) hint to like and subscribe - you make a little grammatical error: It is not "Wenn Sie das Video gefällt,..." but "Wenn Ihnen das Video gefällt,..." it has to be in 'Dativ' (the 3rd case) because "gefallen" als one possible translation for "like / please /.." is a passive verb. Grammatically, I cannot actively "gefallen" someone, they "gefallen" me (I hope this makes sense).

[@Ggdivhjkjl]

What about Hahndorf in South Australia?

[@thomasschumacher5362]

Try and find anyone in Hahndorf that actually speaks German

[@Lemondox123]

Im argentinian, please dont question to me, who is my grandfather

[@AlejoToro-f3w]

I’m from Colombia and my great grandmother was German, here in Colombia we also had some German immigration but mostly located to Bogota (my city) and Baranquilla although there has also been Mennontie migration to certain Rural Areas. The germans have left a mark as our main airline Avianca was founded by WW1 veterans and there is a famous beer brewery named Bavaria which is one of the most popular beer brands here in Colombia. 🇨🇴🇩🇪

[@ellidominusser1138]

Why is it that every german that immigrates to another country founds german beer in that country 💀

[@Tierwaste0606]

In the Los Rios and Los Lagos regions in Chile is also a huge German community. They've also made a dialect of German called "lagunendeutsch".

[@juliane__]

Nice and fun video.

[@bertnijhof5413]

You missed Paraguay. There is a relatively large group of people still speaking German. In 1980 I went to Asunción for Philips for 5 weeks and as a Dutchman I only did speak 3 foreign languages French, German and English. At work on the airport, I used English. In the capital Asunción I could always find a German speaker in a shop, bar or restaurant, if the people did not understand English. I learned that a large group of Germans lead by the sister of Nietzsche immigrated to Paraguay in the end of the 19th century. So, I used German in Paraguay. A colleague of me was saved by a German speaking Paraguayan officer. Somoza an ex-Nicaraguan dictator and a friend of the Paraguayan dictator Stroesnner was shot in Paraguay with a bazooka. Note that Stroessner is a typical German name. My colleague was arrested in a roadblock travelling from work on the airport to the house we rented. He was a suspect, because he was a male foreigner with long hair, and he did not speak Spanish. That German speaking officer had to go with him to the airport to verify his story, but after an explanation in German and after driving a few blocks, he said: "I believe you, go home". Probably the officer used his free time to drink a "Munich" beer. It is a good German type of beer and we also enjoyed it after hours. After that "arrest", we received an official document, that we worked for the airport. I still have a photo of that document.

[@WillemAlblas]

What about Paraguay? There's quite a large German speaking community over there.

[@yetzt]

No mention of South Tyrol or Papua-Neuguinea, disappointing.

[@JustaRandomGuy890]

I think it was a real misopportunity not to mention Paraguay (that still has a Mennonite population) and Chile (that had a lot of WW2 Germans). In Chile they even have German injected in their Spanish (they call cake kuchen). Another interesting place is Israel, they had a question of what language should be spoken in Israel and since a lot of Jews were very educated and from Central Europe many groups (mostly academia) lobbied hard for German to be the national language, it is mutually intelligible with Yiddish (the language of European Jews)

[@farhanputrariantono930]

I kinda curious to what German Brazilians felt when Germany beat Brazil 7-1 back in World Cup 2014 😅

[@jonathanr72]

Prior to the Soviet takeover, when the region of Galicia was still in Poland (instead of Belarus/Ukraine as it is today) there were German speaking Poles living there. My father and paternal Grandfather were among them.

[@HawkThunder907]

You forgot about Serbia, yes, many got expelled, but they are still there.

[@funghi2606]

South Tyrol 🇮🇹?!?!?

[@TransportGeekery]

You missed Südtirol in Italy!

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

Italia, Austria, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Check republic, Poland, Roumania, Hungary, Ukraine, Russia, the USA and Germany it self, all have German speaking minorities or majorities. In Russia Mennonites, as in the USA for example. If you count Yiddish as a form of German, you can ad Israel.

[@siggychi]

Another addition, Cincinnati. Southern Ohio is famous for it's German Diaspora and a lot of the neighborhoods are named after German landmarks. My father's side, personally, all lived in Alsace-Loraine before they moved here and I have never went to a family event on my mother's side without someone speaking German

[@BananaRama1312]

Based bro, sadly the elsaß got robbed from us after ww1 but my family on my fathers Side is from straßburg originally and is married to my Moms Side coming from franconia Bavaria and i Always experienced a healthy Balance between those cultures and i still remember the Stories from my grandpa about His beautiful Farm nestled in the rolling Green Hills of the elsaß with His kettle♥️

[@jugadug]

Jamaica had a small community of Germans however they integrated with the majority population over the decades and no longer speak German they still have some German lastnames even the eldest descendants had a very limited to non-existent understanding of the language when I found out.

[@baller84milw]

5:05 Deitsch literally means the same thing as Deutsch, it's just a different dialect's spelling lol.

[@polo443]

In Belize the Mennonite communities speak the Plautdietsch German dialect.

[@Skasaha_]

To my untrained Australian ear, Alsatian sounds like German with a strong French accent.

[@heartsofiron4ever]

it is german with a french accent

[@Elitist20]

South Australia also has a lot of people with German ancestry - they built Australia's wine industry! Prominent wine industry names include Lehmann, Henschke and Schubert. Towns and suburbs with German names in SA include Hahndorf and Klemzig.

[@plonss]

In the late 19th century there were even Germans in the Ottoman Empire, in the territory of modern Turkey, near the town of Amasya there existed an entirely German village.

[@edgarbergmann6581]

There are actually around 10 million german descendants in Brazil. States with the most significant populations are Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Paraná and Espírito Santo.

[@biggie750]

i think you could try to find where all the czech people around the world live, it would be really nice video about that topic i think

[@OC-1024]

Correction for the text at around 1:40 "Wenn Sie das Video gefällt" to "Wenn Ihnen das Video gefällt,". I'm just pointing it out since otherwise, somebody else will do it.

[@takanobaierun]

Also "SozialwissenschaFten" but that's most likely just a Typo; shoudn't happen on such a short word though... ;)

[@robert4598]

800 year old history of german-romanians. *Sums it up in 10sec*

[@viper2help]

I've heard a lot of people speak German in Argentina.

[@braziliantsar]

Outside the South region in Brazil, you can also find a lot of german speakers in Espírito Santo. And something funny but quite sad is that in Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro, no one speaks it "natively", they just speak portuguese, while it was the first german immigrant colony (of course not as big as the South or Espírito Santo, but quite large considering the rest of the country).

[@rct3LP]

I think it’s „menschenskinder“ not Menschen und Kinder. It’s an exclamation of exasperation

[@gtPacheko]

My grandpa spoke more German than Portuguese (SC). He was an immigrant in the 40s. He taught us a little but died quite soon. I've been to Pomerode, Blumenau, and other German speaking towns/cities, it's pretty cool. But I live in the Criciúma region, which has more Italian influence.

[@Louieinoz]

yeah 20-30 years ago these german communities in Brazil would definitely have a very strong german influence... but it's pretty much just the elderly that still speak. the younger generations don't really embrace. there are some but only a tiny fraction of what it was.

[@charlessiegfriedlevy6973]

nice work

[@LTymeEdits]

Volga German here :)

[@mastrovvonmariental3962]

You forget the Unserdeutsch speakers in Papua New Guinea and Australia

[@Ggdivhjkjl]

Wasn't Uganda a German colony too?

[@armin5577]

No, but Tanzania, Cameroon and Togo were

[@jurgenrudiger]

It’s probably more people speaking German in Lower Silesia than in Upper Silesia.

[@MrUrlanjedozvoljeno]

Well there is currently a big group of bosnians speaking german due to the war in the 90s and once crhe returned back to bosnia german became kind of second language before english. Today I would sya at least 25% to 33% of bosnians speak german almost like mother tongue. No joke. I am one of them. 😊

[@thirdeyefocus6255]

A large percentage of the Germans in Russia lived originally at the Black Sea, not just along the Volga. And many were deported all throughout Soviet Central Asia, not just Northern Kazakhstan. Paraguay also had several waves of German immigration, similar to neighboring Argentina and Southern Brazil. Hohenau in Paraguay is also popular with recent expats from Germany.

[@SantaFe19484]

I live in a rural area in Pennsylvania with Lutheran churches in almost every town, so there must have been a lot of German settlers.

[@cosminblk8359]

I'm from southern Bukowina (Romania). My city (Radautz) had 2 mayors at the same time back in the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: one for the romanian comunity, one for the german and jewish comunity.

[@Judah132]

I'm German and looking forward to immigrate while I'm young anytime soon.. and it's most likely gonna be Brazil. Probably São Paolo, but I'm not sure.

[@Niggardly-hv8ld]

Why not Fortaleza, Ceará?

[@hansenfoulken]

you should've talked about Colonia Tovar in Venezuela, probably the most german place in latin america

[@Niggardly-hv8ld]

Venezuelans are 100% Germans!

[@abradolflincler726]

Adolf Schickelgruber himself escaped to Argentina, allegedly.

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

For decades Paraguay was ruled by Alfredo Stroessner!

[@andrewmakkink]

What about New Hanover, a town in South Africa

[@jeremybeau8334]

The part about Mexico was to fast. There was more to talk about, but yes, there are not that many german speakers.

[@Boris.Becker.]

I'm from the south of Brasil, and my mother(born in 72) learned dutch at home and began to learn portuguese only at School at 5 Years old(because It was mandatory).

[@riton349]

I was suprised how many still can speak German in Strasbourg. They could rather speak German than English.

[@BananaRama1312]

Yeah duh cause straßburg was and will Always be a German City, everything from the architecture(fachwerkhäuser) to the food(Flammkuchen) aswell as culture is Just desrinctly and undeniable gernanic😂

[@tavish4699]

because they are germans they just forgot :) no but for real im from that area and many many french work in germany because they have to pay taxes in france where they are allot lower but the wages in germany are alot higher meaning they have more money at the end they also regulary come every first of the month and buy up all the toilet paper and shampoo :D

[@alecity4877]

surprised you didn't mention Colonia Tovar in Venezuela, where they have their own very unique dialect of German that dates back to a small group of migrants from Baden in the 1840s, they remained quite isolated from the spanish speakers and though in recent decades the langauge has had a decline and mixed with local spanish, it's still a quite unique German diaspora.

[@verzannt]

As a Pennsylvania Dutchman, I would submit that it was not as much confusion over our endonym, Deitsch, that led to us being called "Pennsylvania Dutch." Instead the word "Dutch" changed meaning in English and began to refer to a narrower region than it had previously.

[@diegofiumarella2110]

You totally forgot South Tyrol in northeast Italy!!!

[@martinkasse1932]

Die eigentliche Frage ist, wann bekommen wir Elsaz Lothringen zurück? Die Franzosen können gerne das Saarland haben