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  2. Old High German literature - Wikipedia

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    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 prescriptive rules in more or less isolated monasteries, then, it is to be expected that Old High (and Old ...

  3. List of modern literature translated into dead languages

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    Target language Translation title Original title Original author Translator Publisher Date Ancient Greek: Αστερικιος εν Ολυμπια [18] Astérix aux Jeux Olympiques: Goscinny, René: I. Kakrides Fanis: Mammouth: 1992 Ancient Greek: Μεταξυ ροδου και ξιφους [18] La Rose et le Glaive: Uderzo, Albert: I. Kakrides ...

  4. Old High German - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Bible translations into German - Wikipedia

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    The Luther Bible was revised in 1984, and this version was adapted to the new German orthography in 1999. Here also some revisions have taken place, e.g. "Weib" > "Frau". Despite the revisions, the language is still somewhat archaic and difficult for non-native speakers who want to learn the German language using a German translation of the Bible.

  6. Germanic philology - Wikipedia

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    Germanic philology is the philological study of the Germanic languages, particularly from a comparative or historical perspective. [1]The beginnings of research into the Germanic languages began in the 16th century, with the discovery of literary texts in the earlier phases of the languages.

  7. German orthography - Wikipedia

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    Around the year 1200, there was a tendency towards a standardized Middle High German language and spelling for the first time, based on the Franconian-Swabian language of the Hohenstaufen court. However, that language was used only in the epic poetry and minnesang lyric of the knight culture.

  8. Old Saxon - Wikipedia

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    Old Saxon (German: altsächsische Sprache), also known as Old Low German (German: altniederdeutsche Sprache), was a Germanic language and the earliest recorded form of Low German (spoken nowadays in Northern Germany, the northeastern Netherlands, southern Denmark, the Americas and parts of Eastern Europe).

  9. Early Germanic culture - Wikipedia

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    Linguists postulate that an early Proto-Germanic language existed and was distinguishable from the other Indo-European languages as far back as 500 BCE. [1]From what is known, the early Germanic tribes may have spoken mutually intelligible dialects derived from a common parent language but there are no written records to verify this fact.

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