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English translation: DACH countries

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German term or phrase:	DACH
English translation:	DACH countries
Entered by:	BirgitBerlin

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12:34 Sep 27, 2011

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Marketing - Advertising / Public Relations / Switzerland

German term or phrase: DACH

All,

this is from a newsletter of a manufacturer of medical equipment:

"Nur **DACH** und Benelux !!!!
Die folgenden Geräte werden zum 31.12.2011 in Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz, Niederlande, Belgien und Luxemburg, abgekündigt:"

I strongly suspect it stands for Deutschland, Austria and Confoederatio Helvetica.
I have never seen it before and it is an unsual misture of languages in one abbreviation.
Can anyone confirm my assumption.

Thank you.

Peter Zauner KudoZ activity Questions: 105 (none open) (5 closed without grading) Answers: 73 Australia
Local time: 22:10

DACH countries

Explanation:
It stays like that in English.
http://www.dict.cc/?s=DACH countries

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BirgitBerlin
Germany
Local time: 14:10

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Thanks, Birgit, you were the fastest
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Summary of answers provided

4 +2

DACH / D-A-C-H

Nicole Schnell

DACH

Pascal Zotto

4 +1

DACH countries

BirgitBerlin

see link

Jeff Whittaker

Summary of reference entries provided

Jeff Whittaker

Wikipedia agrees with you

Paul Skidmore

Answers

4 mins confidence:

see link

Explanation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language_in_Europe#D-A-C...

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language_in_Europe#D-A-C...

Jeff Whittaker
United States
Local time: 08:10
Native speaker of:

English

6 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

DACH countries

Explanation:
It stays like that in English.
http://www.dict.cc/?s=DACH countries

BirgitBerlin
Germany
Local time: 14:10
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

German
PRO pts in category: 27

Grading comment

Thanks, Birgit, you were the fastest

8 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

DACH / D-A-C-H

Explanation:
It refers to German-speaking countries.

"German language in Europe

[...]

German is the main language of about 90–95 million people in Europe (as of 2004), or 13.3% of all Europeans, being the second most spoken native language in Europe after Russian, above French (66.5 million speakers in 2004) and English (64.2 million speakers in 2004).

The European countries with German-speaking majorities are Germany (95%, 78.3 million), Austria (89%, 7.4 million), Switzerland (65%, 4.6 million) ("D-A-CH"), Luxembourg (0.48 million) and Liechtenstein (0.03 million)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language_in_Europe

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Note added at 8 mins (2011-09-27 12:42:36 GMT)
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D-A-CH

Sorry for the typo.

Nicole Schnell
United States
Local time: 05:10
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

German
PRO pts in category: 84

14 mins confidence:

DACH

Explanation:
It's a common abbreviation over like Benelux. You'll also find it quite often for GPS-maps where these 3 countries can be selected as a bundle package. I guess that some PR-people took the letter formerly used on cars for each country (black on white background) and put it together in a word that sounds good: D (Germany), A (Austria), CH (Switzerland)

Pascal Zotto
Austria
Local time: 14:10
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Letzeburgesch,

German

Reference comments

4 mins

Reference

Reference information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language_in_Europe#D-A-C...

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language_in_Europe#D-A-C...

Jeff Whittaker
United States
Native speaker of:

English

7 mins

Reference: Wikipedia agrees with you

Reference information:
It's not such a strange mixture of languages.

These are the letters commonly used to identify these countries.

Reference: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-A-CH

Paul Skidmore
Germany
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English

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Oct 3, 2011 - Changes made by BirgitBerlin:
Created KOG entry	KudoZ term => KOG term

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