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    West Central German (German: Westmitteldeutsch) belongs to the Central, High German dialect family of German. It includes the following sub-families: Central...
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    the west to the former eastern territories of Germany. Central German divides into two subgroups, West Central German and East Central German. Central German...
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    West Germany (German: Westdeutschland, pronounced [ˈvɛstˌdɔɪ̯t͡ʃlant] ) is the colloquial English term used to describe the Federal Republic of Germany...
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    German (Standard High German: Deutsch, pronounced [dɔɪtʃ] ) is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely...
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  • German which is commonly also called "High German" – comprise the varieties of German spoken south of the Benrath and Uerdingen isoglosses in central...
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    Nedersaksisch), also known as West Low German are a group of Low German dialects spoken in parts of the Netherlands, northwestern Germany and southern Denmark...
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    East Central German or East Middle German (German: Ostmitteldeutsch) is the eastern non-Franconian Central German language and is part of High German. Present-day...
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    varieties of German are conventionally grouped into Upper German, Central German and Low German; Upper and Central German form the High German subgroup....
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    Central Germany or Middle Germany (German: Zentraldeutschland or Mitteldeutschland, pronounced [ˈmɪtl̩ˌdɔɪ̯t͡ʃlant] ), in geography, describes the areas...
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    consisted of the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria; this was also known as the Quadruple Alliance. The Central Powers' origin...
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    (< wgerm. -*skapi, cf. German -schaft) like friendship (< wg. *friund(a)skapi, cf. German Freundschaft) are specific to the West Germanic languages and...
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    German West Africa (Deutsch-Westafrika) was an informal designation for the areas in West Africa that were part of the German Colonial Empire between...
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    West German rearmament (German: Wiederbewaffnung) began in the decades after World War II. Fears of another rise of German militarism caused the new military...
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    Hessian dialects (category Central German languages)
    Hessian (German: Hessisch) is a West Central German group of dialects of the German language in the central German state of Hesse. The dialect most similar...
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    West Berlin (German: Berlin (West) or West-Berlin, German pronunciation: [ˈvɛstbɛʁˌliːn] ) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of...
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  • Klagenfurt, and Bolzano, Italy) Mócheno Cimbrian Central German languages West Central German Amana German Ripuarian Franconian Moselle Franconian Hunsrik...
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    Low German du, German du, West Frisian do) In dialects affected by phase 4 but not by the dental variety of phase 3 (Central German, Low German, and...
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    year of the West German economy as a separate and separable institution. From 1990 the positive and negative distortions generated by German reunification...
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    East Germany (German: Ostdeutschland, pronounced [ˈɔstˌdɔʏtʃlant] ), officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik...
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    Mittelfränkisch) refers to the following continuum of West Central German dialects: Ripuarian (spoken in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in eastern...
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    increasing authority to West German officials and moved to establish a nucleus for a future German government by creating a central Economic Council for...
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    Afterwards, the German reunification in 1990 reestablished the German team. West Germany has hosted the games on one occasion. Germany at the Olympics...
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    expulsions. The West German figure for Poland is broken out as 939,000 monolingual German and 432,000 bi-lingual Polish/German. The West German figure for...
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  • Amana German (German: Amana-Deutsch or Kolonie-Deutsch, lit. Colony German) is a dialect of West Central German that is still spoken by several hundred...
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  • German was further south than it now is: Central German (Mitteldeutsch) West Central German (Westmitteldeutsch) Central Franconian (Mittelfränkisch) Ripuarian...
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    The West North Central states form one of the nine geographic subdivisions within the United States that are officially recognized by the U.S. Census Bureau...
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    resistance in the west German cities. Nazi Germany surrendered unconditionally on 8 May, leaving the western Allies in control of most of Germany. At the very...
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    Mark (German: [ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈmaʁk] ; English: German mark), abbreviated "DM" or "D-Mark" ([ˈdeːˌmaʁk] ), was the official currency of West Germany from 1948...
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    Hutterite German and a West Central German variety of German known as Pennsylvania German or Pennsylvania Dutch), Kansas (Mennonites and Volga Germans), North...
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    change occurred with German reunification in 1990, in which the territory of the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany) became part of the Federal...
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