GERMAN LANGUAGE

The german language family is the group of languages and idioms spoken since ever by the Germans people,divided in three strands: the eastern group, essentially the Gothics languages, the northern group spreaded in the Scandinavia area and the western group in the central Europe and british archipelago. They are strictly connected with the history of European integration and mythology, even with the others European languages, included into the indoeuropeans language families (P.I.E.) and part of the Kentum group P.I.E., participating to the traditional culture of Europeans so that they will have an important role in the future of Europe.

But what are the germanic languages? The Gothic language was used by all the gothic people spreaded around Europe such as Westgoths, Ostrogoths, Lombards, Burgunds, Vandals, etc.: the gothic alphabet was made of 27 letters got from the Greek and adopted to write laws and acts in the regna formed in 476 AD when the Roman Empire fell in Western side. They went lost when those reigns had been defeated during the fight against the Arian eresy by the Catholics Church and the Byzantine Empire in VI century AD, substituited by the Latin language and its evolution in Romance languages of nowadays where some Gothic roots are still evident.

The north Germanic languages are still spoken by the peoples always been inhabited the states of Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland: this group adopted an alphabet with 29 letters born from the Latin one, quite different from the Runic code descending from the Etruscan language and spoken by the Vikings but today disappeared in Europe. These languages have been attested for the first time in early Middle Age when the corresponding kingdoms of the Scandinavia area came off from mythology and became officially known to others European people. The last group of Western German languages are Dutch, Frisian and the german family of idioms officially spoken in Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Liechenstein, Switzerland and spreaded in Russia and eastern Euroepan states. All of these languages have a latin alphabet of 26 letters (except for the the Yiddish that uses an hebrew coding) and included the european dialects of Flemish and Luxembourgish, spoken in the historical autonomous regions of Flandres and Luxembourg, while it exists the Afrikaans dialet still spoken in South Africa. The Dutch language was used by the Salian Franks since they founded their reign in V century AD: when the subsequent Carolingian Empire was definitely divided with the Meerssen Treaty in 870 AD, the Old German idiom was born and became the official language of the Reich Empire since X century AD until the end of the First World War

Member of this family is the English, official language in United Kingdom and the Commonwealth nations of Australia, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, the Caribbeans&Antilles isles and the U.S.A., even in the ex-british colonial states of Cyprus, Malta, India, Pakistan, Sudan and the subsaharian Eastern Africa area, in Papua-New Guinea and the Philippines, in all the Polynesians&Melanesians archipelagos, in the United Nations agencies and for the European Union, while it is largely spreaded in the states of Aegypt, Ethiopia and Indonesia and all over the world for business, information, technical texts fields and as common language in international relationships from the Second World War. The english language had firstly attested with the "Domesday Book" written by the new king of England William I and adopted by the City of London corporation.

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