German may be a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Central Europe. it’s the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and therefore the Italian province of South Tyrol. it’s also a co-official language of Luxembourg and Belgium, also as a national language in Namibia. German is most almost like other languages within the West Germanic language branch, including Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Low German , Luxembourgish, Scots, and Yiddish. It also contains close similarities in vocabulary to some languages within the North Germanic group, like Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish. German is that the second most widely spoken Germanic language after English. English is additionally a West Germanic language.