| Language German | Locality Vashi |
German is a West Germanic language related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world s major languages and is the most widely-spoken first languagein the European Union.
German is written using the Latin alphabet. In addition to the 26 standard letters, German has three vowels with umlauts ( / , / , and / ) and the letter .