Germans

Germans
Deutsche

1st Row: Martin Luther, Otto von Bismarck, Ludwig van Beethoven, Immanuel Kant, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 2nt Row: Johannes Gutenberg, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Richard Wagner, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 3rd Row: Friedrich Schiller, Karl Marx, Brothers Grimm, Konrad Adenauer, Albrecht Dürer 4t Row: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Karl Benz, Konrad Zuse, Marlene Dietrich, Max Planck 5t Row: Claudia Schiffer, Albert Einstein, Johannes Kepler, Friedrich Nietzsche, Heidi Klum 6t Row: Willy Brandt, Jürgen Klinsmann, Wernher von Braun, Catherine the Great, Carl Friedrich Gauss
Tot population
German Diaspora ca. 150 million[1]
Regions wi signeeficant populations
Germany        75 million[2][3][4]
Leids
German: Heich German (Upper German, Central German), Law German (see German dialects)
Releegion
Roman Catholic, Protestant (chiefly Lutheran)
Relatit ethnic groups
Austrians, Danes, Dutch, Inglis, Flemish, French, Icelanders, Norse fowk,[5] Romansch, Swades,[5] an ither Germanic fowks

The Germans (German: Deutsche) are a Germanic ethnic group native tae Central Europe. The Inglis/Scots term Germans haes referred tae the German-speakin population o the Holy Roman Empire syne the Late Middle Ages.^[6] Legally, Germans are ceetizens o the Federal Republic o Germany.

O approximately 100 million native speakers o German in the warld, aboot 66–75 million consider thairsels Germans. Thare are an additional 80 million fowk o German ancestry mainly in the Unitit States, Brazil, Canadae, Argentinae, Fraunce, Roushie, Chile, Poland, Australie an Romanie (who maist likely are no native speakers o German).^[7] Sicweys, the tot nummer o Germans warldwide lees atween 66 an 160 million, dependin on the criteria appleed (native speakers, single-ancestry ethnic Germans, pairtial German ancestry, etc.).

The day, fowks frae kintras wi a German-speakin majority or significant German-speakin population groups ither than Germany, sic as Austrick, Swisserland, Liechtenstein an Luxembourg, hae developit thair awn naitional identity an uisually dae no refer tae thairsels as "Germans" in a modren context.

1. ↑ Germans and foreigners with an immigrant background Archived 2009-05-04 at the Wayback Machine. 156 is the estimate which counts all people claiming ethnic German ancestry in the U.S., Brazil, Argentina, and elsewhere.
2. ↑ 66.42 million is the number of Germans without immigrant background, 75 million is the number of German citizens Germans and foreigners with an immigrant background Archived 2009-05-04 at the Wayback Machine
3. ↑ "Deutsche Welle: 2005 German Census figures". Dw-world.de. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
4. ↑ "CIA World Factbook – Germany: People". Cia.gov. Archived frae the original on 11 Februar 2016. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
5. ↑ ^{a b} "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived frae the original (PDF) on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 10 Julie 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
6. ↑ alangside the slichtly earlier term Almayns; John o Trevisa's 1387 translation o Ranulf Higdon's Polychronicon haes: Þe empere passede from þe Grees to þe Frenschemen and to þe Germans, þat beeþ Almayns. Durin the 15t an 16t centuries, Dutch wis the adjective uised in the sense "pertainin tae Germans". Uise o German as an adjective dates tae ca. 1550. The adjective Dutch narraeed its sense tae "o the Netherlands" durin the 17t century.
7. ↑ (in Spaingie) Hablantes del alemán en el mundo Archived 2012-03-20 at the Wayback Machine