A History of the German Language: With Special Reference to the Cultural and Social Forces that Shaped the Standard Literary LanguageFor the English-speaking student of German. May serve as an introduction to more specialized studies in comparative philology. |
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IndoEuropean | 3 |
The Technique of Linguistic Reconstruction | 15 |
Germanic Loanwords in Latin | 21 |
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acceptable affricate Alemannic Bavarian Berlin borrowed century culture dative deutsche deutschen Sprache diphthong East Franconian East Middle German ENHG especially example French German consonant shift German language Germanic tribes Gothic Gottsched grammar Greek High German consonant High German dialects High German language High Medieval historical Hittite Hochsprache homeland idiom imperial chancery Indo-European languages influence Ingvaeonic instance Johann later Latin Leipzig linguistic literature loanwords Low German Luther manuscript Middle Franconian Middle German dialects Middle High German migrations Modern native North nouns occurs Old English Old High German Old Norse Old Saxon orthography parent language PGmc plural preterite pronunciation prose Proto-Germanic Proto-Indo-European referred Rhenish Franconian Roman Sanskrit scholars singular Slavic speech spelling spirant spoken standard structure style suffix syllable term territory Tocharian translation umlaut Upper German velar verb vocabulary voiced voiceless stops vowel West Germanic WGmc words written language