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German is a West Germanic language, the official language of Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein and one of the official languages of Switzerland and Belgium. It is written in the Latin alphabet, distinguished among major European languages by its retained grammatical case system, its practice of capitalizing all nouns, and its capacity for long compound words. Standard German descends from a chancery variety codified in the early modern period, and it remains one of the most widely studied second languages in Europe.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker Count Attested From (Year)The Old High German period is conventionally dated from the Abrogans, a Latin-German glossary written c. 765-775, though isolated Elder Futhark runic evidence is older still. RegionMajority and official language of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein; mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe 2 Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names German directly: "Edward Sapir was a German-born American linguist and anthropologist, trained under Franz Boas, who became one of the most influential figures in early American structural linguistics."
Verner's Law explains exceptions to Grimm's Law in the Germanic consonant shift ancestral to German and the other Germanic languages.
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