German is declared more often than any language but English
Eight of the nine vendors that declare a site language declare German. It is the whole of the shortest declared set here alongside English, and it is missing from exactly one set, which is a five-code one. As of 2026-09-22.
| Vendor | Code as declared | Form of the code | The set it sits in |
|---|---|---|---|
| CapCut | de-DE | Region-tagged | 27 locales, every one but English region-tagged |
| D-ID | de | Bare language code | two codes in all, the shortest declared set here |
| Higgsfield | de | Bare language code | five bare codes |
| Kling AI | de | Bare language code | 20 bare codes |
| PixVerse | de | Bare language code | 13 bare codes |
| SceneMixer | de | Bare language code | 15 codes, one of them script-tagged |
| Synthesia | de | Bare language code | nine codes, one of them region-tagged |
| Vidu | de | Bare language code | nine bare codes |
Inclusion rule. Vendors declaring this language as a same-host hreflang alternate. A vendor serving the language without declaring it cannot be seen by this method and is not listed. Order. Alphabetical by vendor.
1The first language after English, almost everywhere
The shortest declared set in this register is German and English and nothing else. Three other sets of five or nine codes include it. On the evidence of this column, German is where a company in this category translates first.
That is a statement about business software buying rather than about audience size: German-speaking Europe buys tools, pays for them, and expects a page in its own language. Several much larger language communities are declared far less often.
2The one set that skipped it
A single five-code set declares English, French, Japanese, Korean and Brazilian Portuguese and no German. Given how uniform the rest of the column is, that is the most conspicuous omission anywhere in this register.
Nothing published explains it, and the register does not guess. What can be said is that this vendor chose two markets outside Europe and one inside it, which is an unusual shape for a set of that size.
3Widely declared, and never qualified
German has three national standards, in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, differing in vocabulary and in one letter of the alphabet. One vendor here declares de-DE; the other seven declare the bare code.
No voice list in this register names an Austrian or Swiss variety either. So the most translated language in the column is also one of the least specified, which is the normal state of affairs here rather than an exception.
4Sources
Each row was read from the vendor's own markup on 2026-09-22 and is kept in the register; what counts as a declaration is on how counted. The shortest declared set is read at its own entry.
Languages either side of this one in the index: French and Indonesian. Every language any vendor declares is listed at one language at a time.
- Site languages2 languages: de, endeclared as same-domain alternates
- Site languages5 languages: de, en, es, ja, kodeclared as same-domain alternates
- Site languages5 languages: en, fr, ja, ko, pt-BRdeclared as same-domain alternates