German language

German is mainly spoken in central europe.German is a Germanic language, part of the West Germanic sub-branch, and is spoken by around 110 million native speakers worldwide, of whom most live in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Luxembourg.

German Sprachraum refers to the Central Europe German-speaking area, which includes Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It is also an official language in South Tyrol (Italy), Belgium and Luxembourg, and a minority language in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic,Denmark,Hungary,Poland,Romania,and Namibia.

The Longest Word in german is famous for its extensive use of long words. So long that the longest German word is now obsolete: Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz, meaning “the law concerning the delegation of duties for the supervision of cattle marking and the labeling of beef” 

German can be found all over the world

 and it is the 11th most widely spoken language in the world, with about 1.4% of the population being German-speaking. Mandarin takes first place and English comes in third

Some of the English words are also used as German languages

Like English and Dutch, German forms part of the West Germanic languages. When English speakers learn German, they will have the consolation of finding a lot of words that are similar in both languages. Be careful though, there are some tricky words that look and sound the same but have totally different meanings. The German word ‘gift’ for example, means poison, nothing like the present or blessing it is used to describe in English.

All nouns are capitalised

If you ever pick up a German newspaper, you might be confused to see large bodies of texts permeated by long words written in capital letters. That’s because all nouns in German are written with capital letters 

Because in english,only proper nouns like people's names of countries and cities are capitalised.In German every single noun of capitalised.

German is the ‘language of the writers and thinkers’ german has often been referred to as the language of the Dichter und Denker or the writers and thinkers. For example, the great Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – author of the epic Faust – is considered one of Germany’s greatest national treasures.



The 26 standard letters of the alphabet, the German language has three vowels with umlauts (Ä/ä, Ö/ö, and Ü/ü) and the special character ß (a distinct kind of ‘s’, called ‘Eszett’ or ‘scharfes Es’ — sharp S in translation).

German has a long standing history as a noteworthy language of culture, philosophy, theology, and economy in Europe and overseas. Throughout the passing of time, it had also influenced some of the languages with which it entered in contact, such as Czech, Polish, French, Italian, Hungarian, or Romanian.

German is inflected language with four cases for nouns,pronoun and adjectives (nominative,accusative,genitive,dative),three genders (masculine-der,feminine-die,neuter-das),2 numbers(singular,plural)

                                                 
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