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High German, or Hochdeutsch, is the name of the standard form of Modern German. It is a [[West Germanic]] | High German, or Hochdeutsch, is the name of the standard form of Modern German. It is a [[West Germanic]] and is related to [[Low German]], [[Dutch]], and [[Anglo-Saxon]]/[[Modern English]]. Today it is the official language of Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. | ||
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High German, or Hochdeutsch, is the name of the standard form of Modern German. It is a West Germanic and is related to Low German, Dutch, and Anglo-Saxon/Modern English. Today it is the official language of Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.
| High German HochDeutsch | |
| Spoken in: | Germany, Switzerland, Austria (Deutschland, Sweiss) |
| Conworld: | Real world |
| Total speakers: | 105 million |
| Genealogical classification: | Indo-European
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| Basic word order: | SVO, OVS/V2 |
| Morphological type: | inflecting |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | nominative-accusative |
| Writing system: | |
| Created by: | |
| unknown | 1800-Present C.E. |
