German Language
Date Submitted: 03/09/2002 05:35:54
Category: / Social Sciences / Language & Speech
Length: 2 pages (507 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Language & Speech
Length: 2 pages (507 words)
GERMANIC LANGUAGES
Present and earlier forms of German, English, Dutch-Flemish, Afrikaans,
Yiddish, Frisian, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, and Faeroese belong
to the family of languages called Germanic. These languages are a branch of
the Indo-European language family. Of these, English has the largest number of
speakers, considerably more than 300 million.
For some language families there are written records of the parent
language. The Romance languages, for example, are derived from Latin. But in
the case …
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…is the s that is normally used for plurals, though some nouns
change their form entirely for plurals.
In German there are many more forms for both nouns and verbs, and
adjectives change in order to conform to the use of the noun in a sentence.
Verbs change spelling with each person (I, you, he, we, you, they), and they
change also with each tense. Adjectives and nouns change, depending on case
nominative, objective, possessive.
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