The german is a branch of the Indo European languages and these are spoken natively by 515 million people worldwide. Mainly in Europe, North America and Oceania. The English language has about 400 mn speakers. German has about 100 mn native speakers and the Dutch have about 24 mn speakers.
North of Germany is the Icelandic and the Norwegian languages including the Swedish which make up to 20 mn native speakers in the nordic countries.
