German (English: German) belongs to the Indo-European-Germanic-West Germanic branch, and its standard form is called Standard German, which is the official language of Austria, Belgium, Germany, Porzano, Liechtenstein, Luxemburg and Switzerland, and is written in Latin alphabet.
The number of people who use German accounts for 3.0 1% of the world population. In terms of the number of countries that use German, German is the sixth largest language in the world. It is also one of the major languages in the world and the most widely used mother tongue in the European Union.
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The word German first appeared in the early Middle Ages. Its root comes from Germanic (thioda, adjective? Thiodisk) means that this is a language used by ordinary people. At that time, the upper class of Franks generally used "Frankish Latin", which was later called French. At that time, German was not a unified language, but a general term for many local dialects.
During the Middle Ages, the development of German dialects was very different because of the feudal lords' separatist regime and inconvenient transportation. Although attempts have been made to establish the same language, it is generally limited to various regions and only used by certain classes. For example, the low German in North Germany became the common language of local businesses in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea during the heyday of the Hanseatic League.
For the need of religious reform, Martin Luther translated the Bible into a dialect of German, which played a very important role in unifying German. German dialects used in Luther's Bible were widely popularized and became the basis of later standard German.