“deutsch“
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[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
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*’the german language’ is a ‘west germanic language’ that is mainly spoken in ‘central europe’*
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*GERMAN lnnguge ‘is a “wester GERMAN ic language’…let us all be sure to straighten out our ‘englsh names’ then…”
so said “SWIM”
(“jim + sam’)
(“jim can’t swim”)
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(it is the most widely-spoken + (co-)official language in…)
‘germany’
‘austria’
‘switzerland’
‘south tyrol’
(the ‘italian autonomous province’)
‘liechtenstein’
‘belgium’
(its ‘german-speaking community’)
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(???)
(that tells me NOTHING about this region)
(or how large this ‘community’ actually is compared to ‘total population’)
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(it is also an ‘official’ (but not ‘majority’) language of ‘luxembourg’)
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(major languages which are most similar to ‘german’ include other members of the ‘west germanic language branch’…)
‘afrikaans’
‘dutch’
‘english’
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(it is the 2nd most widely spoken ‘germanic language’
(after ‘english’)
(one of the ‘major languages’ of the world, ‘german’ is the ‘first language’ of about 95 million people worldwide a+ the most ‘widely-spoken native language’ in the ‘european union’)
(‘the german language’ is also the 3rd most widely-taught foreign language in both the ‘US’ (after ‘spanish’ and ‘french’) and the ‘EU’ (after ‘english’ and ‘french’;
at lower secondary level), the 2nd most commonly used ‘scientific language’ as well as the 3rd most widely used language on websites (after ‘english’ and ‘russian’))
(the german-speaking countries are ranked 5th in terms of annual publication of new books, with one tenth of all books (including e-books) in the world being published in the German language)
(‘german’ derives most of its vocabulary from the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family)
(a portion of German words are derived from Latin and Greek, and fewer are borrowed from French and ‘English’)
(with slightly different standardized variants (German, Austrian, and Swiss Standard German), German is a pluricentric language)
(‘german’ is also notable for its broad spectrum of dialects, with many unique varieties existing in ‘Europe’ and also other parts of the world)
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(due to the ‘limited intelligibility’ between certain varieties + ‘standard german’…)
(…as well as the lack of an ‘undisputed’ + ‘scientific difference’ between a “dialect” + a “language”…)
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(….some german ‘varieties’ (or ‘dialect groups’ such as ‘low german’/’plautdietsch’) are alternatively referred to as ‘languages’ + ‘dialects’)
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👈👈👈☜*“THE HIGH GERMAN LANGUAGES”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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💕💝💖💓🖤💙🖤💙🖤💙🖤❤️💚💛🧡❣️💞💔💘❣️🧡💛💚❤️🖤💜🖤💙🖤💙🖤💗💖💝💘
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥