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The map in no correct. Why?

 - Official language -

Correct

 - Widely spoken and understood -

False, Try to speak german in France or Italy, jajaja, that's a bad joke, "NO wide-at all" and even no less (maybe regional, jajaja). The German Government try to look bigger than they are. There is no contact with the reality.

 - Spoken in a regional level -

FALSE, look the definition of "regional", and look for how many people speak German in USA, Brazil,... jajaja, that's only a bad joke.

It is so far from the reallity that it didn't need more comments.

Danke! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.181.89.217 (talk) 11:16, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Don't you think you're overreacting a little? I'm quite sure that something's wrong with this map, but maybe we should assume good faith and tell the person who created the map about our concerns instead of fantasising about this being a government conspiracy. --Six words (talk) 14:13, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, pretty much. I don't think there's a conspiracy here. And I don't think the person that made the comments above was looking at the map too carefully. Only one country on the map is coloured 'widely spoken and understood'--Namibia, so I don't see how France or Italy have to do with that. On that note, France and Italy are coloured 'spoken at a regional level,' which is accurate. The word 'regional' is indicating that it is spoken by a sizable amount of people in a given area. In the United States, as indicated by the census bureau, 1.1 million Americans speak German at home. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.191.9.133 (talk) 02:54, 23 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. Namibia is the only country shown as German widely spoken and understood which doesn't have it as an official language. I am not familiar with Namibia, but it is a former German colony and Languages of Namibia say that 32% of whites there speak German. I guess that would be about 3% of the total population. The article Namibia has a photo demonstrating the use of 4 languages, including German.

According to German language, German is a recognised minority language in the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Namibia, Romania, Slovakia and Poland, and German is an official language of an Italian province. France systematically discriminates against minority languages, but according to Alsace, "[a]bout 39% of the local adult population but probably less than 10% of the children are still fluent in the Alsatian language", which is a German dialect. These dialect speakers typically have no problems communicating with speakers of standard German, and the region has produced German authors. In the US there is the Pennsylvania German language. Coming from a German region that speaks a related dialect, I have no problem at all understanding the Wikipedia in that language, pdc:, and in fact this Wikipedia even allows articles to be written in Palatinate German and has an extra category for them. Hans Adler 10:51, 23 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]