German language, german deutsch, official language of both germany and austria and one of the three official languages of switzerland. german belongs to the west germanic group of the indo-european language family, along with english, frisian, and dutch (netherlandic, flemish).. German and sanskrit, both are phonetic languages. i.e whatever you write, you pronounce the same.. unlike languages like english. in which you write some set of letters and you pronounce that set differently. german words are gender based.. A concise history of the german language. cheryl january linguistics 450 section 1 dr. hallen inquiry 3 february 25, 1999. in this paper, i will review the history of the german language from its earliest origins to the present..
A language referred to as indo-european was the origin of the german language. in fact, most languages spoken in europe and asia come from indo-european.. German (deutsch) german is a west germanic language spoken mainly in germany, austria, switzerland, liechtenstein, belgium, luxembourg and italy.. Germanic languages, branch of the indo-european language family. scholars often divide the germanic languages into three groups: west germanic, including english, german, and netherlandic (dutch); north germanic, including danish, swedish, icelandic, norwegian, and faroese; and east germanic, now.
