German Translation Services
Traducta ranks among the top translation firms in Canada, providing German translation services to industry-leading and Fortune 500 companies across North America.
German is the most widely spoken language in the European Union. It is spoken by approximately 120,000,000 people as a first language around the world in addition to approximately 80,000,000 people as a second or third language.
Traducta is specialized in German translation services and has a strong client base in the Montreal translation area, Toronto translation area, and Mississauga translation area as well as for translation in the United States and Canada.
We are trusted by business professionals and industry leading organizations to provide them with the accurate, flawless and detail-oriented translations that effectively communicate their message to their target audience.
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German Statistics
Number of words
The number of words contained in the German language is roughly around 130,000 (Duden) words. Naturally this does not include loanwords/slang and is based on the traditional German reference book.
Speakers
Approximately 120,000,000 Native Speakers
Approximately 80,000,000 second and third language speakers
German Alphabet (printed)
The modern German alphabet is an extended Latin-based alphabet consisting of 30 letters. The additional letters (4) consist of 3 letters with a diacritic and 1 ligature.
| Uppercase or Capital letter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A | Ä | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | Ö | P | Q | R | S | ß | T | U | Ü | V | W | X | Y | Z |
| Lowercase or small letter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| a | ä | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | ö | p | q | r | s | ß | t | u | ü | v | w | x | y | z |
German includes 1 diacritic appearing only on 3 vowels (A,O,U) in additional to 1 ligature, the <ß>.
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Character Table
As mentioned in the section "German Alphabet", German uses diacritics (otherwise accented characters). Below you will find a reference table for your convenience.
| Character | ALT Codes (Windows Decimal) | HTML Code |
| Ä ä |
Uppercase: ALT+0196 lowercase: ALT+0228 |
Ä ä |
| Ö ö |
Uppercase: ALT+0214 lowercase: ALT+0246 |
Ö ö |
| Ü ü |
Uppercase: ALT+0220 lowercase: ALT+0252 |
Ü ü |
| ß | Uppercase: ALT+0223 | ß |
Encoding (Web)
ISO 10646, ISO 8879, ISO 8859-1 (also referred to as "Latin-1") are the most common and usable for most Western European languages, including German.
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