German Standard German

German Standard German
Bundesdeutsches Hochdeutsch
Pronunciation	[ˈbʊndəsdɔʏtʃəsˈhoːxdɔʏtʃ]
Region	Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic High German Standard German German Standard German
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None
IETF	de-DE

A German Standard German speaker, recorded in South Africa

German Standard German, ^{[1] [2]} Standard German of Germany, ^{[3] [4]} or High German of Germany, ^[5] is the variety of Standard German that is written and spoken in Germany. ^{[1] [2] [6]} It is the variety of German most commonly taught to foreigners. It is not uniform, which means it has considerable regional variation. ^[7] Linguist Anthony Fox writes that British English is more standardized than German Standard German. ^[7]

References

1. Russ (1994 :7, 61–66, 70, 72, 84–86, 89–91, 96)
2. Sanders (2010 :194 and 196–200)
3. Fox (1990 :292)
4. Dürscheid & Giger (2010 :176)
5. Horvath & Vaughan (1991 :101)
6. Fox (1990 :292–293)
7. Fox (1990 :293)

Bibliography

• Dürscheid, Christa; Giger, Nadio (2010), "Variation in the case system of German – linguistic analysis and optimality theory" (PDF), in Lenz, Alexandra N.; Plewnia, Albrecht (eds.), Grammar between Norm and Variation, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, ISBN   978-3-631-61004-6
• Fox, Anthony (1990), The Structure of German , New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., ISBN   978-0-19-815821-9
• Horvath, Barbara M.; Vaughan, Paul (1991), Community languages: a handbook, Multilingual Matters, Multilingual Matters, ISBN   978-1853590917
• Russ, Charles (1994), The German Language Today: A Linguistic Introduction, London: Routledge, ISBN   978-0-203-42577-0
• Sanders, Ruth H. (2010), German: Biography of a Language: Biography of a Language, New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., ISBN   978-0-19-538845-9