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Old High German (OHG; German: Althochdeutsch (Ahdt., Ahd.)) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally identified as the period from around 500/750 to 1050. Rather than representing a single supra-regional form of German, Old High German encompasses the numerous West Germanic dialects that had undergone the set of consonantal ...
Bernese German, (Standard German: Berndeutsch, Alemannic German: Bärndütsch) is a subdialect of High Alemannic German which is spoken by Old Order Amish in Adams County, Indiana, and their daughter settlements. There are several thousand speakers of the dialect in the US.
German dialects are the various traditional local varieties of the German language.Though varied by region, those of the southern half of Germany beneath the Benrath line are dominated by the geographical spread of the High German consonant shift, and the dialect continuum that connects German to the neighboring varieties of Low Franconian and Frisian.
The High German languages (German: hochdeutsche Mundarten, i.e. High German dialects), or simply High German (Hochdeutsch [ˈhoːxˌdɔɪ̯t͡ʃ] ⓘ) – not to be confused with Standard High German which is commonly also called "High German" – comprise the varieties of German spoken south of the Benrath and Uerdingen isoglosses in central and southern Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein ...
The term Wisconsin German refers to both Wisconsin High German and to heritage dialects of German spoken in Wisconsin. [ 1 ] : 5 By 1853, a third of Wisconsin's population was coming from German-speaking lands; by the end of the 19th century, Wisconsin's largest minority of non-English speakers were German speakers.
In an attempt to attract German immigrants to the nearby St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway, the city was named after German chancellor Otto von Bismarck. [19] During World War I, a group of citizens who saw the name as "un-American" petitioned to change the name of the city to "Loyal," but the proposal was rejected by most of the ...
Map showing the main Old High German scriptoria and the areas of the Old High German "monastery dialects" The Old High German period sees the first attempts to use the Latin alphabet for writing German, something which Otfrid of Weissenburg, writing c. 830, recognized as fraught with difficulty. [5] As Murdoch explains, "Written down without ...
As of the U.S. 2000 Census, some 1,035 people report speaking German at home in Fredericksburg, [11] the town with the largest community of Texas German speakers, representing 12.48% of the total population, 840 in New Braunfels, [12] 150 in Schulenburg, [12] 85 in Stonewall, [13] 70 in Boerne, [12] 65 in Harper, [14] 45 in Comfort [15] and 19 in Weimar, [12] all of which except for ...