Intergenerational language transmission
| Degree of endangerment | Grade | Speaker population |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | 5 | The language is used by people of all ages, from children up. |
| Unsafe | 4 | The language is used by some children in all domains; it is used by all children in limited domains. |
| Definitively endangered | 3 | The language is used mostly by the parental generation and up. |
| Severely endangered | 2 | The language is used mostly by the grandparental generation and up. |
| Critically endangered | 1 | The language is used mostly by very few speakers, of the great-grandparental generation. |
| Extinct | 0 | There exists no speaker. |
Differences between nationality and mother tongue in the German minority, 2001 and 2011
| Census | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 2011 | |
| Nationality | 39,106 | 18,658 |
| Mother tongue | 41,238 | 14,148 |
| Difference | –2,132 | 4,510 |
| 2011/2001 index | n/a | 47.7 |
| Mother tongue-to-nationality ratio | 1.05 | 0.76 |