# German language ## Links (Wikipedia order) <!-- injected from _registry/childlinks/German_language.json (2026-07-30T02:09:12Z) --> `-ism` · `18th-century_history_of_Germany` · `Aachen` · `Accusative_case` · `Adelaide` · `Affix` · `Afrikaans` · `Agriculture_in_Germany` · `Alemanni` · `Alemannic_German` · `Allied-occupied_Germany` · `Alps` · `Alsace` · `Alsatian_dialect` · `Amazon_Standard_Identification_Number` · `Ancient_Greek` · `Anglo-Frisian_languages` · `Apartheid` · `Architecture_of_Germany` · `Argentina` · `Article_(grammar)` · `Australian_English` · `Austria` · `Austria-Hungary` · `Automotive_industry_in_Germany` · `Auxiliary_verb` · `Baden-Württemberg` · `Baltic_Germans` · `Baltic_states` · `Banat` · `Basel` · `Basic_Law_for_the_Federal_Republic_of_Germany` · `Bavaria` · `Bavarian_language` · `Belgian_French` · `Belgium` · `Berlin` · `Berlin_German` · `Bern` · `Bertolt_Brecht` · `Bibliography_of_Germany` · `Bismarck,_North_Dakota` · `Black_Death` · `Blackletter` · `Bokmål` · `Bolivia` · `Bosnia_and_Herzegovina` · `Brandenburg` · `Brazil` · `Brașov` · `Brothers_Grimm` · `Budapest` · `Bukovina` · `Bundestag` · `Bundeswehr` · `Burgundians` · `Cameroon` · `Canton_of_Bern` · `Canton_of_Fribourg` · `Cantonese` · `Carolingian_Empire` · `Carolingian_dynasty` · `Censorship_in_Germany` · `Central_Europe` · `Champenois_language` · `Chancellor_of_Germany` · `Chile` · `Chronology_of_warfare_between_the_Romans_and_Germanic_peoples` · `Cimbrian_War` · `Cinema_of_Germany` · `Clause` · `Coat_of_arms_of_Germany` · `Compound_(linguistics)` · `Confederation_of_the_Rhine` · `Conscription_in_Germany` · `Conservatism_in_Germany` · `Continental_Europe` · `Corruption_in_Germany` · `Creole_language` · `Crime_in_Germany` · `Crimean_Gothic` · `Croatia` · `Culture_of_Germany` · `Cursive` · `Czech_Republic` · `Czech_language` · `Danish_language` · `Dative_case` · `Demographics_of_Germany` · `Denazification` · `Denmark` · `Deutsche_Bundesbank` · `Deutsche_Welle` · `Deutsches_Wörterbuch` 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`Languages_of_San_Marino` · `Languages_of_Scotland` · `Languages_of_Serbia` · `Languages_of_Slovenia` · `Languages_of_Spain` · `Languages_of_Svalbard` · `Languages_of_Sweden` · `Languages_of_Switzerland` · `Languages_of_Turkey` · `Languages_of_Ukraine` · `Languages_of_Vatican_City` · `Languages_of_Wales` · `Languages_of_science` · `Languages_of_the_Bailiwick_of_Guernsey` · `Languages_of_the_European_Union` · `Languages_of_the_Faroe_Islands` · `Languages_of_the_Isle_of_Man` · `Languages_of_the_Netherlands` · `Languages_of_the_United_Kingdom` · `Languages_of_Åland` · `Languages_used_on_the_Internet` · `Last_Judgment` · `Latin` · `Latin_script` · `Latvia` · `Law_enforcement_in_Germany` · `Law_of_Germany` · `Letterhead` · `Lexicon` · `Liechtenstein` · `Limburgish` · `Lingua_franca` · `Linguasphere_Observatory` · `Linguistics` · `List_of_German_states_by_life_expectancy` · `List_of_German_words_of_French_origin` · `List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Germany` · `List_of_cities_and_towns_in_Germany` · `List_of_countries_and_territories_where_German_is_an_official_language` · `List_of_early_Germanic_peoples` · `List_of_earthquakes_in_Germany` · `List_of_exports_of_Germany` · `List_of_islands_of_Germany` · `List_of_lakes_of_Germany` · `List_of_libraries_in_Germany` · `List_of_magazines_in_Germany` · `List_of_newspapers_in_Germany` · `List_of_political_parties_in_Germany` · `List_of_radio_stations_in_Germany` · `List_of_states_in_the_Holy_Roman_Empire` · `Literary_language` · `Lithuania` · `Ljubljana` · `Loanword` · `Lobbying_in_Germany` · `Lombard_language` · `Long_s` · `Lorraine_Franconian` · `Low_Franconian` · `Low_German` · `Lower_Saxony` · `Lower_Sorbian_language` · `Luther_Bible` · `Luxembourg` · `Luxembourgish` · `Lyric_poetry` · `Mandarin_Chinese` · `Manually_coded_language` · `Marcomannic_Wars` · `Mark_Twain` · `Martin_Luther` · `Microsoft_Windows` · `Middle_Ages` · `Middle_Dutch` · `Middle_English` · `Middle_German_Chemical_Triangle` · `Midwestern_United_States` · `Migration_Period` · `Military_history_of_Germany` · `Mittelstand` · `Modality_(semiotics)` · `Modern_English` · `Monastery` · `Moselle_(department)` · `Music_of_Germany` · `Mutual_intelligibility` · `Names_of_Germany` · `Namibia` · `National_language` · `Naturism_in_Germany` · `Nazi_Germany` · `Nazi_Party` · `Nazism` · `Nelly_Sachs` · `Netherlands` · `New_High_German` · `New_Testament` · `New_Zealand` · `Nobel_Prize_in_Literature` · `Nominative_case` · `Norman_language` · `North_Dakota` · `North_Frisian_language` · `North_German_Confederation` · `North_Rhine-Westphalia` · `North_Sea_Germanic` · `Northern_Europe` · `Northern_Germany` · `Norway` · `Norwegian_language` · `Nynorsk` · `Oder–Neisse_line` · `Official_language` · `Old_East_Norse` · `Old_English` · `Old_High_German` · `Old_Norse` · `Old_Saxon` · `Old_Testament` · `One_Standard_German_Axiom` · `Ore_Mountains` · `Orthography` · `Ostsiedlung` · `Outline_of_Germany` · `Paganism` · `Papua_New_Guinea` · `Paraguay` · `Parenthetical_referencing` · `Passive_voice` · `Penmanship` · `Pennsylvania_Dutch_language` · `Pensions_in_Germany` · `Phonology` · `Picard_language` · `Pidgin` · `Plautdietsch` · `Pluperfect` · `Pluricentric_language` · `Poland` · `Politics_of_Germany` · `Pornography_in_Germany` · `Portuguese_language` · `Poverty_in_Germany` · `Prague` · `Present_tense` · `President_of_Germany` · `Principality` · `Printing_press` · `Pronunciation` · `Proper_noun` · `Prostitution_in_Germany` · `Proto-Germanic_language` · `Prussia` · `Prussian_virtues` · `Racism_in_Germany` · `Rail_transport_in_Germany` · `Realis_mood` · `Regional_language` · `Regions_of_France` · `Religion_in_Germany` · `Renaissance_humanism` · `Rhine-Ruhr_metropolitan_region` · `Roman_Empire` · `Roman_campaigns_in_Germania_(12_BC_–_AD_16)` · `Romance_languages` · `Romani_language` · `Romania` · `Romansh_language` · `Rudolf_Christoph_Eucken` · `Russia` · `Sack_of_Rome_(410)` · `Sans-serif` · `Sanskrit` · 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`Teutons` · `Text_corpus` · `The_Local` · `Theodor_Mommsen` · `Thirty_Years'_War` · `Thomas_Mann` · `Thuringia` · `Ticinese_dialect` · `Timeline_of_German_history` · `Timișoara` · `Tourism_in_Germany` · `Trade_unions_in_Germany` · `Transgender_rights_in_Germany` · `Transport_in_Germany` · `Transylvania` · `Treaty_of_Verdun` · `Turkey` · `Turkish_language` · `Typeface` · `Tyrol_(state)` · `Unicode` · `Unification_of_Germany` · `United_States_Census_Bureau` · `Upper_Austria` · `Upper_Silesia` · `V2_word_order` · `Vaduz` · `Variety_(linguistics)` · `Venezuela` · `Vienna` · `Visigoths` · `Vocabulary` · `Voice_(grammar)` · `Voice_(phonetics)` · `Vorarlberg` · `Vowel_length` · `Walloon_language` · `Walther_von_der_Vogelweide` · `War_guilt_question` · [[Wayback_Machine]] · `Weimar_Republic` · `West_Flemish` · `West_Germanic_languages` · `West_Germany` · `Western_Europe` · `Wolfram_von_Eschenbach` · `Women_in_Germany` · `World_War_I` · `World_War_II` · `World_war` · `Writing_system` · `Yenish_language` · `Yiddish` · `Zagreb` > Summary stub · part of Systems Thinking · [Wikipedia source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language) ## Summary German (Deutsch, .mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}pronounced [dɔʏtʃ] ⓘ)[9] is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the majority and official (or co-official) language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. It is also an official language of Luxembourg, Belgium and the Italian autonomous province of South Tyrol, as well as a recognized national language in Namibia. There are also notable German-speaking communities in other parts of Europe, including: Poland (Upper Silesia), the Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Denmark (North Schleswig), Slovakia (Krahule), Romania, Hungary (Sopron), and France (Alsace). Overseas, sizeable communities of German-speakers are found in the Americas. ## Key points - German (Deutsch, .mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}pronounced [dɔʏtʃ] ⓘ) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. - It is the majority and official (or co-official) language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. - It is also an official language of Luxembourg, Belgium and the Italian autonomous province of South Tyrol, as well as a recognized national language in Namibia. - There are also notable German-speaking communities in other parts of Europe, including: Poland (Upper Silesia), the Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Denmark (North Schleswig), Slovakia (Krahule), Romania, Hungary (Sopron), and France (Alsace). - Overseas, sizeable communities of German-speakers are found in the Americas. ## Relation to Systems Thinking German language sits within the Systems Thinking cluster of related concepts. Its principles contribute to understanding [[Feedback|feedback]], [[Emergence|emergence]], and dynamic behavior in complex adaptive systems. ## Sources - [German language — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language) Back to Systems Thinking --- <!-- SEMIOTIC-PROFILE:START --> ## Semiotic profile > *The semiotic universals this article invokes, machine-derived from the crossref — **unverified** (born so). Populated 2026-07-06 for the Systems room.* **Universals (4):** 🟢 ipa (8) · 🟡 system (7) · 🟢 emergence (2) · 🟢 feedback (2) **Enter by sign:** Systems Semiotic Gateway · Alphabetum · Icon Registry · ← Systems Portal <!-- SEMIOTIC-PROFILE:END --> ## Wikipedia : Wikitube **Strict pair:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language) : [Wikitube](https://en.wikitube.io/wiki/German_language) ## Previous hub tags Tree parent: [[Systems_theory]]. Legacy hubs: none. --- *Sources: 1 legacy note. Minted wave 1, 2026-07-30 (v1.6 order).*