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    education in German and English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Turkish, and other languages. German language in the Basic Law "Europeans and their Languages". 2012...
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    regulating German orthography. German is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Germanic group of the Germanic languages. The Germanic languages are...
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  • The High German languages (German: hochdeutsche Mundarten, i.e. High German dialects), or simply High German (Hochdeutsch) – not to be confused with Standard...
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    worldwide. Low German is most closely related to Frisian and English, with which it forms the North Sea Germanic group of the West Germanic languages. Like Dutch...
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    in Iron Age Scandinavia and Germany. The West Germanic languages include the three most widely spoken Germanic languages: English with around 360–400...
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    languages compared with other Slavic languages. Sorbian alphabet List of Sorbian-language writers Low Lusatian German White Serbia "Sorbian languages"...
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  • languages include some 58 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects that originated in Europe; this language family is part of the Indo-European language...
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    follows: Danish, Low German, Low Rhenish, the Sorbian languages (Lower Sorbian and Upper Sorbian), and the two Frisian languages, Saterfrisian and North...
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    varieties of Alsatian and Moselle Franconian are identified as "regional languages" according to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages of 1998...
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    independent languages.[citation needed] ISO 639-3 distinguishes four languages: gsw (Alemannic, Alsatian, Swiss German), swg (Swabian), wae (Walser German) and...
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    German is the official and predominantly spoken language in Germany. It is one of 24 official and working languages of the European Union, and one of...
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    recognition of three official languages: French, German, and the national language Luxembourgish, established in law in 1984. These three languages are also...
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    Central German or Middle German (German: mitteldeutsche Dialekte, mitteldeutsche Mundarten, Mitteldeutsch) is a group of High German languages spoken from...
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    2. The Linguistic Setup of Sign Languages – The Case of Irish Sign Language (ISL)", Mouth Actions in Sign Languages (in German), De Gruyter Mouton, 28...
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    German Sign Language (German: Deutsche Gebärdensprache, DGS) is the sign language of the deaf community in Germany, Luxembourg and in the German-speaking...
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    The Frisian languages (/ˈfriːʒən/ FREE-zhən or /ˈfrɪziən/ FRIZ-ee-ən) are a closely related group of West Germanic languages, spoken by about 400,000 Frisian...
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    Yiddish (redirect from Judaeo-German)
    Judaeo-Spanish – Language derived from Medieval Spanish spoken by Sephardic Jews Judeo-Iranian languages – Number of related Jewish variants of Iranian languages Die...
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    United States portal Languages portal Germany portal German-Pennsylvanian Association Pennsylvania Dutch Country Hutterite German Languages in the United States...
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    ban the teaching of all languages except for English, although the majority would ban non-English languages typically only banned German. A total ban on...
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    national standard languages may be considered separate languages even though they are largely mutually intelligible, as in the case of Danish and Norwegian...
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    Texas German (German: Texasdeutsch) is a group of German language dialects spoken by descendants of mid-19th century German settlers, Texas Germans. They...
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    one of three official languages in what was then South West Africa, alongside Afrikaans and English, two other Germanic languages in Namibia. German is...
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  • the "standard" written languages of Switzerland and Austria have each been codified as standards distinct from that used in Germany. For this reason, "Hochdeutsch"...
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  • "The Awful German Language" is an 1880 essay by Mark Twain published as Appendix D in A Tramp Abroad. The essay is a humorous exploration of the frustrations...
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    The Kingdom of Belgium has three official languages: Dutch, French, and German. A number of non-official, minority languages and dialects are spoken as...
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    Gallo-Romance languages (Langues d'oïl 1.25%, Occitan 1.33%). Some of these languages are also spoken in neighbouring countries, such as Belgium, Germany, Switzerland...
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    dialects of the Old Norse language; Danish and Swedish are also classified as East Scandinavian or East Nordic languages. Scandinavian languages are often...
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  • Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French, University of the Free State School of Languages, North-West University Ancient Modern Languages Cultures...
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  • below: Language family Indo-European languages Proto-Germanic language Germanic languages West Germanic languages German language High German: Standard...
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  • Palatine German (Standard German: Pfälzisch, endonym: Pälzisch) is a group of Rhine Franconian dialects spoken in the Upper Rhine Valley, roughly in the...
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