The native language of <answer>German</answer>s is <answer>German</answer>, a West <answer>German</answer>ic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch, and sharing many similarities with the North <answer>German</answer>ic and Scandinavian languages. Spoken by approximately 100 million native speakers, <answer>German</answer> is one of the world's major languages and the most widely spoken first language in the European Union. <answer>German</answer> has been replaced by English as the dominant language of science-related Nobel Prize laureates during the second half of the 20th century. It was a lingua franca in the Holy Roman Empire.
What is the native language of Germans?
German