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As with every country in the world, not all people in Austria speak German. There is a large Croatian and Serbian population in Austria. The official language is German.
Austrian German is also different from German spoken in Germany. See http://german.about.com/library/bldialect_aus01.htm for more information.
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Why did German people follow Hitler in 1930?
because the German people didn't want to die.
What revolutions took place in Europe in 1848?
Peoples of France, the German states, the Austrian Empire, the Italian states, Denmark, Wallachia, Poland, among others all revolted.
Why did Marie Antoinette become the target of protesters?
She was Austrian, a country that France had been in war with for years. The French did not want a foreigner on the throne, especially not an Austrian. Also, even before she came to France, the revolution was already smouldering because of the financial disasters of Louis XV which he did to the national treasury. France was already almost bankrupt when Marie Antoinette stepped in the picture, and because the French needed someone to blame it all on, and she was Austrian, she was the perfect victim. The people tried to make all of France believe that she had no concern for her people, spending money on wigs and dresses and throwing wild parties while the population was starving and desperate. The people did believe it, although she was completely innocent and killed her and her husband, destroying the whole French monarchy and the French credibility all around the world for as far as the French had that anyway.
How did the assassination of an Austrian leader develop into the Great War?
they all had alliances
Did people in concentration camps kill other people during the holocaust?
no but the German people killed all the Jews there or worked them to death
Is Austrian language the same as German language?
Austrian German is a variation of the German language spoken in Austria. While they are very similar, there are differences in vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar between the two.
Do all German people speak German?
Well, in Germany there is only one official language and that is German. If people from other countries come to Germany and they want to get the German citizenship, they need to speak German. But there are a lot of people who haven`t got citizenship and not all of them speak German - though that makes things hard for them, of course.
What percentage of Germans speak German?
It would be most unusual for a German not to be able to speak German. I therefore answer 99.99% of Germans speak German. The reasoning :- there is a very small percentage of people who have speech impediments that rends it impossible for them to speak at all.
How does countries that speak German effect Austria?
We Austrians speak German, for it is our mother tongue. But it's right that there a certain differences. Not only in the accent, also in the use of tenses and especially in the vocabulary. And the "German German" certainly does influence the Austrian German. Over the last 10 - 15 years we could observe that little by little German terms take the place of our Austrian terms. A reason for this change is on the one hand the influence of German TV, for we can watch all German cable TV programs here, which affects mainly our youth. And on the other hand it has to do with standardization. E.g. international food companies write their product's description in four or five different languages on the packaging. And of course they don't write a German and an Austrian version on one packaging, because the standard German version can be understood in both countries. So, as an Austrian citizen you get used after a while to the German standard vocab. So we now use e.g. more and more the word "Tomate" for tomatoe, although the Austrian word is "Paradeiser".
How many people in Luxembourg speak German?
The speak both German and french so German is not the official language
Does Coco Chanel speak French?
Yes, Coco Chanel spoke French. She was born in France and French was her native language.
What languages are spoken in Liechtenstein?
The official language of liechtenstein is Standard German, but most people speak Swiss German or Walser German.There are also a large number of foreign-born people living in liechtenstein, so there are many foreign languages spoken there.They speak German in Liechtenstein.T.hey speak GermanThe official language is German but most speak Alemannic, a dialect of German.GermanGerman is the official languageGermanIn Liechtenstein they speak German.SwissThey speak a dialect of German.
What percentage of Europe speak German?
"German is the main language of about 90-95 million people in Europe (as of 2004), or 13.3% of all Europeans." (quote from Wikipedia)
What percentage of people in Germany speak German Turkish Italian greek English danish dutch?
An answer giving the data that you have requested is not readily available. But the following information may suffice. It is estimated that 95% of Germany's population speak German.Of Germany's 82,210,894 inhabitants,74,969,842 are German= (91.2%) all of whom speak German,the remaining 7.241,052 are foreigners. 1,713,551 are Turkish all of whom speak Turkish and mostly speak German528,318 are Italian all of whom speak Italian and mostly speak German384,808 are Polish all of whom speak Polish and mostly speak German50, 000 are Danish all of whom speak Danish and German The remaining 4114375 are minorities from the many other countries of the world,for which there are no statistics available. Note:-All statistics (2007) are estimates.
What towns speak German as a first language?
Only 1 town and that's Berlin but they all speak German in french towns
What does the German word spechen mean in English?
Sprechen: to speak I speak You speak He speaks We speak You all speak They speak Hope that helped :)
Do Austria Switzerland Danemark Speak German?
No. All 3 of these counties do not speak German.For the languages of Austria, click here.For the languages of Switzerland, click here.For the languages of Denmark, click here.
