Category Archives: German
How Far Back in History Does the European Race Go?
Etype shares a great many myths about “Aryans,” by which means I am not sure what. The greatest number of linguistic precursor markers for the Aryan language that is shared throughout the globe and the greatest concentrated number of speakers … Continue reading
What Languages Are You Studying?
Please feel free to update us on your current language learning endeavors, if they exist. As for me: English: Native speaker, no need to study anything. In fact, it’s unusual that I run across a word that I don’t know. … Continue reading
Check Out Moselle Franconian
This is one Hell of a bizarre sounding language. I guess it sounds more like French than anything else, but it doesn’t sound much like French either! It doesn’t sound like much of anything! Truth is, they are actually speaking … Continue reading
The Northern Germanic Languages
A friend of mine has a post up at his site referring to an earlier post of mine, Scientific Studies of Intelligibility in Scandinavian Languages. North Germanic has been traditionally divided by East Norse (Swedish, Scanian, Danish, etc.) and West … Continue reading
Filed under Danish, Dialectology, Dutch, English language, German, Germanic, Icelandic, Indo-European, Language Families, Linguistics, Norwegian, Swedish
A Rather Subjective Analysis of European Minority Languages
One way to see how well European minority languages is if you run a popular website that gets a lot of hits from all over Europe. I run one here on my old site, which is in the top 1200 … Continue reading
A Reclassification of the Dutch Language
Warning! This post is quite long – it runs to 123 pages. Where the Dutch language begins and where it ends is an important question. Ethnologue splits Low Franconian-Low Saxon (whatever that is) into 15 languages – Flemish, Dutch, Zeelandic, … Continue reading
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More On The Hardest Languages To Learn – Indo-European Languages
Note: Bizarrely enough, the PC headcases have accused this post, a Linguistics post of all things, of racism. See here for my position statement on racism. Caution: This post is very long! It runs to 88 pages on the Web. … Continue reading
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Reworking of German Language Classification Part 3: High German
Updated September 19, 2011. This post will be regularly updated for some time. Warning! This essay is very long; it runs to 101 pages. This is part 3 of my reclassification of the German language. Part 3 deals with High … Continue reading
A Reworking of German Language Classification Part 2: Middle German
Updated September 19, 2011. This post will be regularly updated for some time. Warning! This essay is very long; it runs to 79 pages. Part 2 post deals with the huge language family known as Middle German. Part 1 deals … Continue reading
Filed under Belgium, Dialectology, Europe, France, German, Germanic, Germany, Indo-European, Indo-Hittite, Language Classification, Language Families, Linguistics, Regional
A Reworking of German Language Classification, Part 1: Low German
Updated April 14, 2012. This post will be regularly updated for some time. Warning! This essay is very long; it runs to 66 pages on the Internet. This is part 1 of the essay: Low German. Part 2 deals with … Continue reading
