German language
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"Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp. One is washed about in it, hither and thither, in the most helpless way; and when at last he thinks he has captured a rule which offers firm ground to take a rest on amid the general rage and turmoil of the ten parts of speech, he turns over the page and reads, "Let the pupil make careful note of the following exceptions." He runs his eye down and finds that there are more exceptions to the rule than instances of it."--"The Awful German Language" (1880) by Mark Twain |
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German is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. German is closely related to English and Dutch. Around the world, German is spoken by approximately 100 million native speakers and another 20 million non-native speakers, and German is widely taught in schools and universities in Europe. Worldwide, German accounts for the most written translations into and from a language.
See also
- Deutsch (disambiguation page)
- German as a minority language
- German exonyms
- German family name etymology
- German in the United States
- German language literature
- German name
- German placename etymology
- German spelling reform of 1996
- Germanism (linguistics)
- List of German expressions in English
- List of non-English-language newspapers in New South Wales#German language newspapers
- List of pseudo-German words adapted to English
- Missingsch
- Names for the German language
- Otto Basler
- Umlaut, ß
- Various terms used for Germans
