15 Most Populous Countries that Speak a Germanic Language

Missed Belgium because "oh those who speak German are in a small minority". Forgot all about the Flemish.

Still, I think the quiz should show the number of germanic langage speakers, not the whole population. There are about 6.7 millions of Flemish of German speakers in Belgium.

And the dutch. Don't forget the Dutch.

@SirGeorgington. Yes. The Dutch.

What about South Africa?

...but speakers of Afrikaans and English combine to give 23.1% of the population, ahead of Zulu's 22.7%.

And Zulu is closely related to Xhosa and other non-Germanic languages of South Africa, so majority of South Africa speaks a Bantu language.

Excellent idea for a quiz, just the right amount of tricky :)

What about South Africa? No single language is spoken by over 50% of the population, and the most common is Zulu, however English and Afrikaans are both Germanic and together exceed Zulu by a narrow margin.

Combine all the Bantu languages into one group and they'll easily beat the united English-Afrikaans with their 75%.

How many quizzes are you going to comment this on before realizing that's not how it works?

even if most people were taking the quiz multiple times to get all the answers, it couldn't take more than 3, let alone 30

Evenso only the first attempt counts. On some quizzes the result are surprising, (rather high scores on stuff i ve never heard about) but this one is simple so a high score is to be expected.

and if on the 30th attempt you d still only get 12 right i think there might be some memory issue, no obscure answers here so the ones you missed the first time you could easily remember the 2nd try.

at the moment getting 12 right would mean you beat 49%

There is nothing weird about that. The quiz was quite easy, I was silly to forget canada, but other than that the only one I didnt guess was jamaica (maybe If I had more time, cause was allready thinking about, what is the biggest place where they speak english)

Ok.

got jamaica (24%) but missed austria (93%)

When Luxembourgs population gets 5 times larger it will most certainly belong on this list.

Yah, there's more people in Anaheim, California than there are in Iceland.

Nice Anaheim reference.

Jamaican here. It's the language of the nation. As with the UK and Australia, we too have variations of words we use in local dialect (slangs). Some parts of Jamaica have a more intense accent than others. We will purposefully speak in a more intense accent around eavesdropping foreigners just to keep them from understanding our conversations.

Population. I doubt Suriname has 1m.

About 600.000, actually

Tyrol is in Austria. South Tyrol is in Italy with supposedly 315K German speakers.

They only have ~300K population.

Just curious, why does India or Singapore not count in this quiz?

Most of their residents don't speak English natively.

Didn't realize Germanic equaled Nordic................................. Damn.

It doesnt. Though in scandinavia germanic languages are spoken.

Yes, it does. Nordic languages are Germanic. The Norse were Germanic peoples.

No it doesnt, they are two different terms. Which are NOT interchangeable. One refers to language and the other to region. And germans, belgians, the dutch and the english etc are Not nordic people. And finland is a nordic country but they do not speak a germanic language there.

They arent all large...

Poland has fewer than 100 000 native German speakers. Most of the Germans either fled or were expelled from Poland during the last months of WW II and shortly afterwards.

Liechtenstein is German speaking! Also, shouldn't Ghana be on the list too? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghanaian_English

but not populous, same goes for iceland, which at first I was surprised not to see on here either

I was surprised to see Jamaica here and not Iceland or Guyana

Guyana has a smaller population. There are more of us Jamaicans than there are Guyanese.