German Language
German alphabet, German language history and sources
German language
German: Official language of Germany. Germanic Languages are a branch stock of the Indo-European Languages.
Number of German Speakers: Altogether nearly 100 million people speak German as their first language, among them are about 77 million in Germany; 8 million in Austria; 4.5 million in Switzerland; 2 million in the United States and Canada; and about 2 million in Latin America.
German Alphabet: German language uses the twenty-six letters of the English alphabet. The name of almost every letter in German contains the sound ordinarily represented by that letter.
German Language History: Historically, German falls into three main periods: Old German (C.A.D. 750–C.A.D. 1050); Middle German (C.1050–C.1500); and Modern German (C.1500 to the present). The earliest existing records in German date back to about A.D. 750.
German Language Enriched by: The German language has its roots in the Holy Roman Empire.
Unique Features of German: German language makes extensive use of inflectional endings. The verb is inflected to show person, number, tense, and mood; and the subjunctive is frequently used.
German language is included in the Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet (SAMPA) which is a computer-readable phonetic script using 7-bit printable ASCII characters based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
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