German speaking world | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-17

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00:02:45 1 Classification
00:06:01 2 History
00:06:10 2.1 Old High German
00:09:08 2.2 Middle High German
00:11:29 2.3 Early New High German
00:14:41 2.4 Austrian Empire
00:15:52 2.5 Standardization
00:17:40 3 Geographic distribution
00:19:06 3.1 Europe and Asia
00:19:14 3.1.1 German Sprachraum
00:20:19 3.1.2 Outside the Sprachraum
00:21:55 3.2 Africa
00:22:03 3.2.1 Namibia
00:23:47 3.2.2 South Africa
00:24:36 3.3 North America
00:25:17 3.4 South America
00:25:25 3.4.1 Brazil
00:25:44 3.4.1.1 Co-official statuses of German or German varieties in Brazil
00:26:22 3.4.2 Other South American countries
00:27:28 3.5 Oceania
00:29:01 3.6 German as a foreign language
00:30:28 4 Standard German
00:31:37 4.1 Varieties of Standard German
00:32:59 5 Dialects
00:34:27 5.1 Low German/Low Saxon
00:35:57 5.2 Low Franconian
00:37:22 5.3 High German
00:37:52 5.3.1 Central German
00:39:16 5.3.2 High Franconian
00:40:25 5.3.3 Upper German
00:40:39 5.3.3.1 Alemannic
00:41:21 5.3.3.2 Bavarian
00:41:49 6 Grammar
00:42:07 6.1 Noun inflection
00:45:39 6.2 Verb inflection
00:47:26 6.2.1 Verb prefixes
00:48:48 6.3 Word order
00:49:38 6.3.1 Auxiliary verbs
00:53:10 6.3.2 Modal verbs
00:54:05 6.3.3 Multiple infinitives
00:54:41 7 Vocabulary
00:55:43 7.1 English–German cognates
01:00:21 8 Orthography
01:00:44 8.1 Present
01:01:59 8.2 Past
01:04:30 8.3 Reform of 1996
01:06:18 9 Phonology
01:07:48 9.1 Vowels
01:07:57 9.2 Consonants
01:11:27 9.2.1 Consonant spellings
01:12:28 9.2.2 Consonant shifts
01:17:28 10 Literature
01:18:31 11 German loanwords in the English language
01:19:35 12 Organisations
01:19:54 12.1 Goethe-Institut
01:20:09 12.2 Verein Deutsche Sprache
01:20:42 12.3 Deutsche Welle
01:21:12 13 See also
01:21:41 14 Notes



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German (Deutsch [dɔʏtʃ] (listen)) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Tyrol in Italy, the German-speaking Community of Belgium, and Liechtenstein. It is also one of the three official languages of Luxembourg and a co-official language in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland. The languages which are most similar to German are the other members of the West Germanic language branch: Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Low German/Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, and Yiddish. There are also strong similarities in vocabulary with Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, although those belong to the North Germanic group. German is the second most widely spoken Germanic language, after English.
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