general information about german, english, frisian, afrikaans and other languages

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theme: theme: lesson 6. general information about german, english, frisian, afrikaans and other languages theme: yokutkhon rakhmonkulova around the beginning of our era the would-be west germanic tribes dwelt in the lowlands between the oder and the elbe bordering on the slavonian tribes in the east and the celtic tribes in the south. they must have retreated further west under the pressure of the goths, who had come from scandinavia, but after their departure expanded in the eastern and southern directions. the dialectal differentiation of west germanic was probably quite distinct even at the beginning of our era since pliny and tacitus described them under three tribal names. on the eve of their "great migrations" of the 4th and 5th the west germans included several tribes. the franconians (or franks) occupied the lower basin of the rhine; from there they spread up the rhine and are accordingly subdivided into low, …
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ses to latin texts, translations from latin and religious poems). towards the 12th c. high german (known as middle high german) had intermixed with neighboring tongues, especially middle and high franconian, and eventually developed into the literary german language. the written standard of new high german was established after the reformation (16th c.), though no spoken standard existed until the 19th c. as germany remained politically divided into a number of kingdoms and dukedoms. to this day german is remarkable for great dialectal diversity of speech. the high german language in a somewhat modified form is the national language of austria, the language of liechtenstein and one of the languages in luxemburg and switzerland. it is also spoken in alsace and lorraine in france. the total number of german-speaking people approaches 100 million. the frisians and the saxons who did not take part in the invasion of britain stayed on …
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theme: theme: lesson 6. general information about german, english, frisian, afrikaans and other languages theme: yokutkhon rakhmonkulova around the beginning of our era the would-be west germanic tribes dwelt in the lowlands between the oder and the elbe bordering on the slavonian tribes in the east and the celtic tribes in the south. they must have retreated further west under the pressure of the goths, who had come from scandinavia, but after their departure expanded in the eastern and southern directions. the dialectal differentiation of west germanic was probably quite distinct even at the beginning of our era since pliny and tacitus described them under three tribal names. on the eve of their "great migrations" of the 4th and 5th …

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