Knobody knows the EXACT number/percentage of people who speak German. The number changes every minute! The numbers of people change so the number of people speaking German change too! If a person who speaks German passes away, then there is one LESS person speaking German. If someone learns German, then there is one MORE person speaking German!
So there it is, there is NOT an exact number of people who speak German!
From Aunt Sidney! x
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.
Since there are about 100 million people speaking German as first language, it is about 1.5 % of the world's population. Including the people speaking German as second language make it double.
People in Vienna speak Viennese German.
According to the 2000 U.S. Census 0.41% of Americans speak only German at home.
"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)
In Germany, people speak German.
Approximately 63% of the Swiss population can speak English. English is often used in business and education in Switzerland, alongside German, French, and Italian.
Other than a small population of German immigrants (mainly in Argentina), people in South America do not speak German.
twenty percentage of people in marseille speak french
The percentage of native Austrians who speak German (Deutsch) is 100. Deutsch is the national language of Austria, albeit a dialect different than regions of Germany and the portion of Swizerland where it also spoken.
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.
Approximately 1.1% of the world's population speaks German as their first language.