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  2. Germanic languages - Wikipedia

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    The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people [nb 1] mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania, and Southern Africa. The most widely spoken Germanic language, English, is also the world's most widely spoken language with an estimated

  3. German language in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The study of the German language in the United States was suppressed during World War I, but has since regained coverage by major universities, most notedly at the University of Kansas from scholars such as William Keel, the Max-Kade Institute of German-American Studies of the University of Wisconsin–Madison [35] and George J. Metcalf from ...

  4. History of German - Wikipedia

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    The Middle Low German language is an ancestor of the modern Low German. It was spoken from about 1100 to 1500, splitting into West Low German and East Low German. The neighbour languages within the dialect continuum of the West Germanic languages were Middle Dutch in the West and Middle High German in the South, later substituted by Early New ...

  5. Evolution of languages - Wikipedia

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    The highly diverse Nilo-Saharan languages, first proposed as a family by Joseph Greenberg in 1963 might have originated in the Upper Paleolithic. [1] Given the presence of a tripartite number system in modern Nilo-Saharan languages, linguist N.A. Blench inferred a noun classifier in the proto-language, distributed based on water courses in the Sahara during the "wet period" of the Neolithic ...

  6. Wisconsin German - Wikipedia

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    Includes brief history of the community and history of Pomeranians in Freistadt, Wisconsin. Max Kade Institute Archives: Scans of primary sources, such as German cookbooks, letters, newsletters printed in the US. Includes an interesting article (1891) "Die Schönheit der deutsch-amerikanischen Sprache". (Beauty of the German-American language)

  7. List of Germanic languages - Wikipedia

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    The Germanic languages include some 58 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects that originated in Europe; this language family is part of the Indo-European language family. Each subfamily in this list contains subgroups and individual languages. The standard division of Germanic is into three branches: East Germanic languages; North Germanic ...

  8. Indo-European languages - Wikipedia

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    As in the other Germanic languages, the Germanic sound shift changed the realization of all stop consonants, with each consonant shifting to a different one: bʰ → b → p → f dʰ → d → t → θ gʰ → g → k → x (Later initial x → h) gʷʰ → gʷ → kʷ → xʷ (Later initial xʷ → hʷ) Each original consonant shifted one ...

  9. Category:German-American history - Wikipedia

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    Publishers (people) of German-language newspapers in the United States (16 P) Pages in category "German-American history" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 278 total.