German is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most spoken native language within the European Union. It is the most widely spoken and 展开

Old High German
The history of the German language begins with the High German consonant shift during the Migration Period, which separated Old High … 展开

The basis of Standard German developed with the Luther Bible and the chancery language spoken by the Saxon court, part of the regional High … 展开

• Berlinian, the High German regiolect or dialect of Berlin with Low German substrate
• Missingsch, a Low-German-coloured variety of High German. 展开

German is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Germanic group of the Germanic languages. The Germanic languages are traditionally subdivided into three branches: North Germanic, East Germanic, and West Germanic. … 展开

As a result of the German diaspora, as well as the popularity of German taught as a foreign language, the geographical distribution of German speakers (or "Germanophones") spans … 展开

The German dialects are the traditional local varieties of the language; many of them are not mutually intelligible with standard German, and they have great differences in lexicon, phonology, and syntax. If a narrow definition of language based on mutual … 展开