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German is a language of Austria, Belgium, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Switzerland; it also has regional status in Italy, Poland, Namibia and Denmark. German also continues to be spoken as a minority language by immigrant communities in North America, South America
The German language also greatly influenced Polish and other West Slavic languages, especially due to German settlement, shared borders and the implied policy of Germanisation after the Partitions of Poland. The majority of all the borrowed words in Polish are of German or Germanic origin.
the German language endonym is Deutschland, from the Old High German diutisc; the French exonym is Allemagne, from the name of the Alamanni tribe; In Italian it is Germania, from the Latin Germania, although the German people are called tedeschi; in Polish it is Niemcy, from the Proto-Slavic nemets, referring to strangers, incomprehensible to ...
Below are links to subpages listing German language names of towns and villages in different ... Polish name German name Type Notes Brda: Brahe: River Długie Lang:
Germanisation, or Germanization, is the spread of the German language, people, and culture. It was a central idea of German conservative thought in the 19th and the 20th centuries, when conservatism and ethnic nationalism went hand in hand. In linguistics, Germanisation of non-German languages also occurs when they adopt many German words.
Several Polish words have entered English slang via Yiddish, brought by Ashkenazi Jews migrating from Poland to North America. Other English words were indirectly derived from Polish via Russian, French, German or Dutch. The Polish words themselves often come from other languages, such as German or Turkish.
Polish (endonym: język polski, [ˈjɛ̃zɘk ˈpɔlskʲi] ⓘ, polszczyzna [pɔlˈʂt͡ʂɘzna] ⓘ or simply polski, [ˈpɔlskʲi] ⓘ) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group within the Indo-European language family written in the Latin script. [13]
For example, plûz, zuk, Pomuchel (cod), Kujel (boar) are borrowings from the Polish language. [citation needed] The city's official communication employed Low German until 1563, when a letter in Low German was sent to Nieuport, while neighboring Elbing and Braunsberg had switched to High German by the middle of the 15th century. [1]