Germany

German is certainly among the most difficult languages in Europe. As a family of West Germanic Languages, German widely used in many European countries. German-speaking areas but especially in Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, South Tyrol, Eastern Belgium and of course Germany. German is available in two variants, one of the High German or Standard German and the other dependent on the region there are a variety of dialects. Based on these facts can be said that German is the most spoken language in Europe and the other one of the most important in the whole World.

The term "German" is derived from the Germanic word "thioda from", which means as much as "Belonging to the people." It was only as from the 15th Century could be a "German-speaking" and this talk Define geographically. It was up to the time of course, not spoken uniformly are located in different places so that smuggles linguistic changes that still German . There One of the major dialect groups, the Upper German dialect, mostly in the south German is spoken. The most widespread languages in this group are Alemannisch dialect, Bavarian and Swabian.

The Upper German dialect groups are the Central German dialect group compared. They are Hessian, Saxon and Franconian Moselle the largest languages in the Central German Dialect groups. Not so well known are the languages in the Low German dialect groups, such as the Eastphalian, Westphalian, East Friesian and Northern Low Saxon. Germany is divided so on three dialect groups, each with its recognition. As an area of High German is the area around Hanover called, which is completely dialect.

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