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.
80% of Americans aged five and older speak only English at home.
California has the largest number of Germans at approximately 5,588,093.North Dakota has the largest percentage of Germans, with about 47% of the state recognizing as German.
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.
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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
Approximately 1.1% of the world's population speaks German as their first language.
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.
About 63% of the Swiss population speaks German as their primary language. It is one of the four official languages of Switzerland, along with French, Italian, and Romansh.
"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)
Approximately 40% of Belgians speak French as their native language.
Does he speak German = Spricht er Deutsch