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Nope we now speak farsi in GERMANY because
speaking german was so boring ;)
I mean serious?
Laurence
Althochdeutsch and Mittelhochdeutsch are dead just as Old and Middle English are dead (i.e. no longer have any living speakers), but modern German (Neuhochdeutsch) is still the most spoken language in Western Europe, besides being the official language of the German Federal Republic, Austria, the most important of the four official languages of the Swiss Confederation, an officially recognized language in Belgium (there is even an official German version of "Le roi, la loi et la liberté") and one of the three working languages of the EU. And it rivals English as the best known foreign language in Hungary, France, Poland, the Czech Republic and most of the Balkans. Many people are however still reluctant to admit to knowing German for political reasons and Luxembourg has even invented the concept of Luxemburgisch to avoid admitting that its population all have German as their mother tongue. .
Exoterical
Some dialects of German are no longer used ( they're dead languages) but German itself is still alive and kicking. If you remember, the country of Germany happens to have a few German speakers, so the language is considered alive. If no one spoke German, then the language would be a dead language, like Latin.
Anonymous
German is a living language because there are still people who speak it natively. Similarly, French and Spanish are living languages.
Latin is an example of a dead language because everyone who speaks it (today) speaks it as a second language; there are no native Latin speakers.
Floriana
I mean, what kind of answer is this? 100.000 people are German native speakers. You probably mean the ancient common language most North- European languages come from. That language doesn't exist anymore.