The great green macaw (Ara ambiguus), also known as Buffon's macaw or the great military macaw, is a Central and South American parrot found in Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador. Two allopatric subspecies are recognized; the nominate subspecies, Ara ambiguus ssp. ambiguus, occurs from Honduras to Colombia, while Ara …

Classification. Elfdalian belongs to the Northern branch/Upper Siljan branch of the Dalecarlian dialects or vernaculars, which in their turn evolved from Old Norse, from which Dalecarlian vernaculars might have split as early as in the eighth or ninth century, i.e., approximately when the North Germanic languages split into Western and Eastern branches.

The Rennsteig (German pronunciation: [ˈʁɛnʃtaɪk]) is a ridge walk as well as an historical boundary path in the Thuringian Forest, Thuringian Highland and Franconian Forest in Central Germany.The long-distance trail runs for about 170 km (110 miles) from Eisenach and the Werra valley in the northwest to Blankenstein and the Selbitz river in the southeast.

Dumpling is a broad class of dishes that consist of pieces of dough (made from a variety of starch sources), oftentimes wrapped around a filling. The dough can be based on bread, flour, buckwheat or potatoes, and may be filled with meat, fish, tofu, cheese, vegetables, fruits or sweets.Dumplings may be prepared using a variety of methods, including baking, boiling, …

German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe.It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.It is also a co-official language of Luxembourg and Belgium, as well as a national language in Namibia.Outside Germany, it is also spoken by …

The history of the game of Skat or Scat began in the early 19th century in Thuringia.The game spread rapidly within German-speaking Europe and also in the US and is now one of the most popular card games in Germany as well as being considered Germany's national card game.

In South Africa, a braai (plural braais) is a barbecue or grill and is a social custom in much of Southern Africa.The term originated with the Afrikaners, but has since been adopted by South Africans of many ethnic backgrounds. The Afrikaans word braaivleis (English: / ˈ b r aɪ f l eɪ s /; Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈbrɑːiflɛis]) means grilled meat.The word vleis is Afrikaans for meat ...

The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is a university located in Weimar, Germany, and specializes in the artistic and technical fields.Established in 1860 as the Great Ducal Saxon Art School, it gained collegiate status on 3 June 1910. In 1919 the school was renamed Bauhaus by its new director Walter Gropius and it received its present name in 1996. There are more than 4000 students …

North Sea Germanic, also known as Ingvaeonic / ˌ ɪ ŋ v iː ˈ ɒ n ɪ k /, is a postulated grouping of the northern West Germanic languages that consists of Old Frisian, Old English, and Old Saxon, and their descendants.. Ingvaeonic is named after the Ingaevones, a West Germanic cultural group or proto-tribe along the North Sea coast that was mentioned by both Tacitus and Pliny …

A census in May 1939, six years into the Nazi era and after the annexation of mostly Catholic Austria and mostly Catholic Czechoslovakia into Germany, indicates that 54% of the population considered itself Protestant, 40% considered itself Catholic, 3.5% self-identified as Gottgläubig (lit. "believing in God"), and 1.5% as "atheist". Protestants voted for the Nazi Party and made up its ...

Germanic philology is the philological study of the Germanic languages, particularly from a comparative or historical perspective.. The beginnings of research into the Germanic languages began in the 16th century, with the discovery of literary texts …

The Germanic umlaut (sometimes called i-umlaut or i-mutation) is a type of linguistic umlaut in which a back vowel changes to the associated front vowel or a front vowel becomes closer to /i/ when the following syllable contains /i/, /iː/, or /j/.. It took place separately in various Germanic languages starting around AD 450 or 500 and affected all of the early languages except Gothic.

Plautdietsch (pronounced [ˈplaʊt.ditʃ]) or Mennonite Low German is a Low Prussian dialect of East Low German with Dutch influence that developed in the 16th and 17th centuries in the Vistula delta area of Royal Prussia. The word Plautdietsch translates to "flat (or low) German" (referring to the plains of northern Germany or the simplicity of the language).

زبان آلمانی (Deutsch, تلفظ ()) یک زبان طبیعی از خانواده زبانی زبان‌های هندواروپایی از شاخهٔ زبان‌های ژرمنی غربی است که بیشتر در اروپای مرکزی گفتگو می‌شود. آلمانی در آلمان، اتریش، سوئیس، تیرول جنوبی، جامعهٔ آلمانی‌زبان ...