10 Facts About German diaspora

Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein each have a German diaspora-speaking majority, though the vast majority of the population do not identify themselves as German diaspora anymore.

Many representatives of expellee organizations support the erection of bilingual signs in all formerly German diaspora-speaking territory as a visible sign of the bilingual linguistic and cultural heritage of the region.

Contrarily to the before-mentioned minorities, the German diaspora-speaking population of the province of South Tyrol cannot be categorized as "ethnic German diaspora" according to the definition of this article, but as Austrian minority.

South Tyrolians were part of the over 3 million German diaspora speaking Austrians who in 1918 found themselves living outside of the newborn Austrian Republic as minorities in the newly formed or enlarged respective states of Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Italy.

German diaspora enjoys co-official status with the national language of Italian throughout this region.

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Since the High Middle Ages, the territory of present-day Romania has been continuously inhabited by German diaspora-speaking groups, firstly by Transylvanian Saxons then, gradually, by other immigrant groups of ethnic German diaspora origin.

In South Africa, a number of Afrikaners and Boers are of partial German diaspora ancestry, being the descendants of German diaspora immigrants who intermarried with Dutch settlers and adopted Afrikaans as their mother tongue.

German diaspora is slowly disappearing elsewhere, but a number of communities still have a large number of speakers and some even have German diaspora language schools.

German diaspora is the second most commonly used scientific language as well as the third most widely used language on websites after English and Russian.

German diaspora-speaking people living abroad can visit the websites of German diaspora-language newspapers and TV- and radio stations.