Overview about the German Language in the United States
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Infobox, family tree: Germanic > High German > German
Obviously, German (High and Low German) is broader than High German. Thus, this "German" must be Standard High German.
Infobox has High German, yet article mentions Plautdietsch and even calls it "a Low German dialect"
Plautdietsch is not High German.
Thus: What's the even scope of this article? Standard High German in the US, High German (including Standard High German) in the US, or German (Low and High German) in the US? Please help improve this article if you can.(February 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
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)[1]
Language family
Indo-European
Germanic
West Germanic
High German
American German
Writing system
Latin script (German alphabet)
German Braille
Language codes
ISO 639-3
–
IETF
de-US
German language spread in the United States, 2000
German speakers in the US
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[2]
1,586,593
1990[3]
1,547,987
2000[4]
1,383,442
^a Foreign-born population only[5]
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.[6] It is the second most spoken language in North Dakota (1.39% of its population)[7] and is the third most spoken language in 16 other states.[8]
^US Census Bureau American Community Survey (2009 - 2013) See Row #24
^"Appendix Table 2. Languages Spoken at Home: 1980, 1990, 2000, and 2007". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved August 6, 2012.
^"Detailed Language Spoken at Home and Ability to Speak English for Persons 5 Years and Over --50 Languages with Greatest Number of Speakers: United States 1990". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 22, 2012.
^"Language Spoken at Home: 2000". United States Bureau of the Census. Archived from the original on February 12, 2020. Retrieved August 8, 2012.
^"Mother Tongue of the Foreign-Born Population: 1910 to 1940, 1960, and 1970". United States Census Bureau. March 9, 1999. Retrieved August 6, 2012.
^"US Census Bureau American Community Survey (2009-2013)" (XLS). Census.gov. Retrieved 2017-01-19.
^"Language Map Data Center". Mla.org. 2013-04-03. Retrieved 2013-11-08.
^Blatt, Ben (13 May 2014), Tagalog in California, Cherokee in Arkansas: What language does your state speak?, retrieved 2014-05-13
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