Indo-European · ISO 639-3 hrx
Hunsrik Language
Hunsrik is an Indo-European language spoken by about 3.0 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Hunsrik is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Hunsrik
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Germanic
- Northwest Germanic
- West Germanic
- High German
- Middle German
- West Middle German
- Rhenish Franconian
- Hunsrik
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Hunsrik language
Hunsrik is spoken by about 3.0 million people, which makes it the 253rd most spoken language in the world — just behind Godwari (3.0 million) and ahead of Ibibio (3.0 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Rhenish Franconian group within the Germanic branch.
Where is Hunsrik spoken?
Hunsrik is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Brazil (1.3 million).
Hunsrik is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Hunsrik is written in the Latin script. Glottolog classifies it as vulnerable, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Pfaelzisch, Limburgan, Luxembourgish, Upper Saxon, Eastern Yiddish, German and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 hrx.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.