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Primarily in German-speaking Europe, as a minority language and amongst the German diaspora worldwide. Total spikas. Native speakers: ca. 90 [1] – 97 million [2] Non-native speakers: ca. 80 million [3] Famili bilong tokples. Indo-European. Germanic.
North Upper Saxon. Language codes. ISO 639-3. –. Glottolog. None. North Upper Saxon ( German: Nordobersächsisch) is a dialect spoken in Eastern Germany. It divides up to Upper Saxon German, Lausitzisch-neumärkisch dialects, Thuringian, and Brandenburgisch. [1] [2] It is spoken around Leipzig .
The german Wikipedia mentions different tribes that lived in that area which today is Saxony: Several Elb-germanic tribes and later Thuringians, who were under control of the Huns at first, but founded a kingdom of their own in the 2nd half of the 5th century. They were beaten by the Franconians and Saxonians from the North.
High German. The High German languages ( German: hochdeutsche Mundarten, i.e. High German dialects ), or simply High German ( Hochdeutsch) – not to be confused with Standard High German which is commonly also called "High German" – comprise the varieties of German spoken south of the Benrath and Uerdingen isoglosses in central and southern ...
Saxons. The Saxons [1] were a group of Germanic [2] peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country ( Old Saxony, Latin: Saxonia) near the North Sea coast of northern Germania, in what is now Germany. [3] Earlier, in the late Roman Empire, the name was first used to refer to Germanic coastal raiders, and in a similar ...
Standard High German ( SHG ), [3] less precisely Standard German or High German [a] ( German: Standardhochdeutsch, Standarddeutsch, Hochdeutsch or, in Switzerland, Schriftdeutsch ), is the umbrella term for the standardized varieties of the German language, which are used in formal contexts and for communication between different dialect areas.
English. Frisian. Dutch. Low German. High German. Dots indicate areas where multilingualism is common. The West Germanic Languages are a branch of Germanic languages first spoken in Central Europe and the British Isles. The branch has three parts: the North Sea Germanic languages, the Weser-Rhine Germanic languages, and the Elbe Germanic languages.
