Indo-European · ISO 639-3 pfl
Pfaelzisch Language Pälzisch
Pfaelzisch is an Indo-European language spoken by about 1.0 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Pfaelzisch is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Pfaelzisch
No country-level speaker figures — see the map.
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Germanic
- Northwest Germanic
- West Germanic
- High German
- Middle German
- West Middle German
- Rhenish Franconian
- Palatinate
- Pfaelzisch
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Pfaelzisch language
Pfaelzisch (Pälzisch) is spoken by about 1.0 million people, which makes it the 478th most spoken language in the world — just behind Nupe-Nupe-Tako (1.0 million) and ahead of Rakhine (1.0 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Palatinate group within the Germanic branch.
Where is Pfaelzisch spoken?
Pfaelzisch is used in 1 country.
Pfaelzisch is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Pfaelzisch is written in the Latin script. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Hunsrik, Limburgan, Luxembourgish, Upper Saxon, Eastern Yiddish, German and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 pfl.
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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.