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Why you probably know more German than you think
Learn about the German language.
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JEFF WALLENFELDT: Guttentag I'm Jeff Wallenfeldt, and I love languages. I'm excited to share with you a bit about the German language, the language that has more ties to English than you might think. German, called Deutsch in Deutschland, is the official language of both Germany and Austria. It's also one of the official languages of Switzerland.
If you're interested in German, I have some good news for you. You may already know even more German than you thought. German and English are part of the same family tree. Both are Germanic languages, specifically West Germanic languages, along with Frisian, Dutch, Afrikaans, and Yiddish.
As in many languages, words have been borrowed from German to English and vice versa. Here are some everyday words in English that have come from German. Angst, a feeling of anxiety, apprehension, and insecurity often associated with teenagers comes from German. We can mostly thank psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud for this one.
Kindergarten, the first grade for many American schoolchildren. That word also comes from Germany, and that's why it has a T where most of us want to use a D. Quirk of American English pronunciation we won't get into. Delicatessen, ready-to-eat food products and the stores that sell them. Delicatessen comes to English from German by way of French from Latin in that delightful centuries-long game of telephone-- that connects so many languages. Think about this - even the currency that you spend at the delicatessen - the dollar - comes from German. The Thaler was a large silver coin used in Northern Germany as well as in Denmark and Sweden.
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3 days ago · Learn about the German language. See all videos for this article. German language, official language of both Germany and Austria and one of the official languages of Switzerland. German belongs to the West Germanic group of the Indo-European language family, along with English, Frisian, and Dutch (Netherlandic, Flemish).
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Germanic languages, branch of the Indo-European language family. Scholars often divide the Germanic languages into three groups: West Germanic, including English, German, and Netherlandic ( Dutch ); North Germanic, including Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Faroese; and East Germanic, now extinct, comprising only Gothic and the ...
Old High German, a group of dialects for which there was no standard literary language, was spoken until about 1100 in the highlands of southern Germany. During Middle High German times (after 1100), a standard language based on the Upper German dialects (Alemannic and Bavarian) in the southernmost part of the German speech area began to arise.
William G. Moulton Anthony F. Buccini. West Germanic languages - Germanic, Indo-European, Dialects: German is spoken throughout a large area in central Europe, where it is the national language of Germany and of Austria and one of the three official languages of Switzerland (the others are French and Italian, and Romansh has a special status).
