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1 day ago · Low German is a part of the continental West Germanic dialect continuum. To the West, it blends into the Low Franconian languages, including Dutch. A distinguishing feature between the Low Franconian varieties and Low German varieties is the plural of the verbs. Low German varieties have a common verbal plural ending, whereas Low Franconian ...
- Estimated 4.35–7.15 million, Up to 10 million second-language speakers (2001)
1 day ago · 1500–2000: Early Modern period to present: Colonialism results in the spread of Indo-European languages to every habitable continent, most notably Romance (North, Central and South America, North and Sub-Saharan Africa, West Asia), West Germanic (English in North America, Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia and Australia; to a lesser extent Dutch ...
- † indicates this branch of the language family is extinct
- Proto-Indo-European
- One of the world's primary language families
Both are part of the continental West Germanic area, the bulk of which became the German nation. There is no clear linguistic border between the Dutch and the Germans, just like there isn't between the Germans from Germany proper and the Swiss Germans, it's just one big dialect continuum, so an ethnic identity based on language can't explain it
5 days ago · West Germanic: including Old Saxon (attested from the 5th c. CE), Old English (late 5th c.), Old Frisian (6th c.), Frankish (6th c.), Old High German (6th c.), and possibly Langobardic (6th c.), which is only scarcely attested; they are mainly characterized by the loss of the final consonant -z (attested from the late 3rd century), and by the j ...
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5 days ago · Germany, country of north-central Europe, traversing the continent ’s main physical divisions, from the outer ranges of the Alps northward across the varied landscape of the Central German Uplands and then across the North German Plain. Germany. One of Europe ’s largest countries, Germany encompasses a wide variety of landscapes: the tall ...
13 hours ago · According to the eLinguistics.net analysis using specific software modules to assess linguistic relationships, the five languages most similar to German are Swiss German, Dutch, Flemish, Afrikaans, and Swedish. Primarily spoken in Switzerland, Swiss German exhibits enough differences with Standard German to be considered its own language.
4 days ago · Definitions of German language. noun. the standard German language; developed historically from West Germanic. synonyms: German, High German. see more.
