German language in the United States
Over 50 million Americans claim German ancestry, which makes them the largest single claimed ancestry group in the United States. Around 1.06 million people in the United States speak the German language at home. It is the second most spoken language in North Dakota (1.39% of its population) and is the third most spoken language in 16 other states.
| American German | |
|---|---|
| US German | |
| Deutsch der Vereinigten Staaten | |
| Region | United States |
| Ethnicity | German Americans Austrian Americans Swiss Americans Liechtensteiner Americans Belgian Americans Luxembourgian Americans |
Native speakers | 1.06 million (2009–2013) |
Indo-European
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Writing system | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| IETF | de-US |
German speakers in the United States | |
Year |
Speakers |
|---|---|
| 1910a | 2,759,032 |
| 1920a | 2,267,128 |
| 1930a | 2,188,006 |
| 1940a | 1,589,048 |
| 1960a | 1,332,399 |
| 1970a | 1,201,535 |
| 1980 | 1,586,593 |
| 1990 | 1,547,987 |
| 2000 | 1,383,442 |
| ^a Foreign-born population only | |
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