German (language). Die deutsche Sprache. Spoken in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg; natively by around 100 million people. It is the most widely spoken mother tongue in the first language
German is hardly “dead.” Founded in 2001, the German Wikipedia (Deutschsprachige Wikipedia) is the second-oldest Wikipedia. It has 2,927,828 articles, making it the third-largest edition of Wikipedia by number of articles as of 2023 just behind the English Wikipedia. In 2011 German Wikipedia became the second edition of Wikipedia, after the English edition, to exceed 100 million page edits.
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