Old High German evolved from about 500 AD. Around 1200 the Swabian and East Franconian varieties of Middle High German became dominant as a court and poetry language under the rule of the House of Hohenstaufen.. The term "High German" as spoken in central and southern Germany (Upper Saxony, Franconia, Swabia, Bavaria) and Austria was first documented in the …

German(s) may refer to: Germany (of or related to) Germania (historical use) Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law; Germanic peoples (Roman times) German language. any of the Germanic languages; German cuisine, traditional foods ...

Namibia is a multilingual country wherein German is recognised as a national language (a form of minority language). While English has been the sole official language of the country since 1990, in many areas of the country, German enjoys official status at a community level.. German, a Germanic language, is especially widely used in central and southern Namibia and was until …

The Awful German Language" is an 1880 essay by Mark Twain published as Appendix D in A Tramp Abroad. The essay is a humorous exploration of the frustrations a native speaker of English has with learning German as a second language. Background. Twain made his first unsuccessful attempt to learn German in 1850 at age fifteen. He resumed his study ...

The German-speaking Community (German: Deutschsprachige Gemeinschaft, or DG; French: Communauté germanophone; Dutch: Duitstalige Gemeenschap), since 2017 also known as East Belgium (German: Ostbelgien), is one of the three federal communities of Belgium. Covering an area of 854 km 2 (330 sq mi) within the Liège Province in Wallonia, it includes nine of the …

An IETF BCP 47 language tag is a standardized code or tag that is used to identify human languages in the Internet.The tag structure has been standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in Best Current Practice (BCP) 47; the subtags are maintained by the IANA Language Subtag Registry.. To distinguish language variants for countries, regions, or writing …

The German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk (German: Deutsch-sowjetische Siegesparade in Brest-Litowsk, Russian: Парад вермахта перед частями РККА в Бресте) was an official ceremony held by the troops of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union on September 22, 1939, during the invasion of Poland in the city of Brest-Litovsk (Polish: Brześć nad Bugiem or ...

The GfK Entertainment charts are the official music charts in Germany and are gathered and published by GfK Entertainment (formerly Media Control and Media Control GfK International), a subsidiary of GfK, on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie.GfK Entertainment is the provider of weekly Top 100 single and album charts, as well as various other chart formats for genres like …

Editions of the word board game Scrabble in different languages have differing letter distributions of the tiles, because the frequency of each letter of the alphabet is different for every language. As a general rule, the rarer the letter, the more points it is worth. Most languages use sets of 100 tiles, since the original distribution of ninety-eight tiles was later augmented with two blank ...

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.