💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "German language"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| germannoun | (uncountable) An Indo-European (Indo-Germanic) language, primarily spoken in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, South Tyrol, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and a small part of Belgium. |
| high germannoun | The standard variety of High German as spoken and written throughout the German language area. |
| low germannoun | A West Germanic language spoken in Low (i.e. Northern) Germany and north-eastern parts of the Netherlands, and formerly also in large parts of eastern and north-eastern Europe, which developed out of Middle Low German from Old Saxon; often treated as a dialect group of German (or Dutch) for convenience, but widely recognized as a separate language. |
| westphaliannoun | A native or inhabitant of Westphalia, a geographic region, part of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. |
| east central germannoun | One of two major subgroups of the Central German dialects; spoken primarily in the German states of Thuringia, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Brandenburg, and Berlin, and until 1945 in large parts of what is now western and southern Poland; distinguished from West Central German by the shift of pre-Old High German initial *p- to pf- (now usually f-). |
| history of the dutch language | Dutch is a West Germanic language, that originated from the Old Frankish dialects. |
| swabian german | — |
| hessian dialects | Hessian is a West Central German group of dialects of the German language in the central German state of Hesse. |
| germanicnoun | (linguistics) The group of Indo-European languages that developed from (Ur-)Germanic. |
| dutchnoun | The main language of the Netherlands, Flanders (i.e., the northern half of Belgium) and Suriname; Netherlandic. |
| norwegian language | Norwegian is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken mainly in Norway, where it is an official language. |
| bavarian language | Bavarian, alternately Austro-Bavarian, is a major group of Upper German varieties spoken in the south-east of the German language area, including the German state of Bavaria, most of Austria and the Italian region of South Tyrol. |
| german standard german | German Standard German, Standard German of Germany, or High German of Germany, is the variety of Standard German that is written and spoken in Germany. |
| german dialects | the various traditional local varieties of the German language. |
| west slavicnoun | A subgrouping of the Slavic language family spoken mainly in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Lusatia (a small area in Germany). |
| west germanicnoun | (linguistics) The branch of the Germanic language family consisting of English, Frisian languages, Dutch, Afrikaans, Low Saxon languages, German, and Yiddish, and their immediate predecessors. |
| silesian germannoun | A nearly extinct West Germanic language (group of Central German dialects), formerly spoken in Silesia, chiefly Lower Silesia (now Poland), and among the expellee community in Germany (now chiefly elderly people). |
| east low germannoun | Low German dialects spoken in the East (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, Pomerania, West and East Prussia). |
| swabiannoun | A person from Swabia. |
| old low franconiannoun | (strict sense) The West Germanic language that is the ancestor of modern Dutch and its varieties. |
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