Category: LanguagePart of speech: nounDifficulty: Common
Sprache
/sprache/Roman
English meaning: Language
Definition
A system of human communication. German is spoken by 130 million people and is the most spoken first language in the European Union. German was historically the language of science, philosophy, and academic scholarship — much early 20th-century scientific literature was in German. German-language contributions to literature (Goethe, Kafka, Mann) have been immense.
Example
“Deutsch ist die meistgesprochene Muttersprache in der Europäischen Union.”
In English: “German is the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union.”
Literary Heritage
“Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.”
“Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people also.”
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Language information
- Language
- Deutsch
- German
- Script
- Latin
- Family
- Germanic
- Speakers
- 135M