Languages of Germany

West Germanic language native to Central Europe

Oghuz Turkic language of the Turkish people

North Germanic language spoken in Northern Europe

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West Slavic ethnolect

group of Germanic languages

language of the Romani people belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family

West Germanic language spoken mainly in northern Germany and the eastern part of the Netherlands

language spoken by Sorbs in Germany in the historical province of Upper Lusatia

Limburgish ( or ; ; also Limburgian, Limburgic or Limburgan) is the collective designation for a group of closely related language varieties spoken in most of Belgian and Dutch Limburg and in the adjacent areas of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Western Slavic language spoken in eastern Germany in the historical province of Lower Lusatia

major group of Upper German varieties spoken in the southeast of the German language area Bavaria

Lechitic language spoken by the Sorbs

group of dialects of the Upper German branch of the Germanic language family

extinct West Slavic language

minority languages of Germany, spoken mostly by people in North Frisia

German dialect group

earliest stage of the German language, spoken from 500/750 to 1050 AD

Germanic language spoken 8C – 12C

group of Low German dialects spoken in parts of the Netherlands, northwestern Germany and southern Denmark

Upper German dialect

Plautdietsch () or Mennonite Low German is a Low Prussian dialect of East Low German with Dutch influence that developed in the 16th and 17th centuries in the Vistula delta area of Royal Prussia. The word Plautdietsch translates to "flat (or low) German" (referring to the plains of northern Germany). In other Low German dialects, the word for Low German is usually realised as Plattdütsch/Plattdüütsch or Plattdüütsk , – very often also as Plattdeutsch – but the spelling Plautdietsch is used to refer specifically to the Vistula variant of the language.

sign language in which the deaf community and hearing people communicate with each other in Germany

German dialect or language spoken in Silesia

written and formal spoken German

extinct West Slavic language

West Germanic language family

West Germanic language spoken between the 13th and 16th centuries

mystical language created by St. Hildegard of Bingen

set of Franconian dialects spoke in the Low Countries during the Early Middle Ages

major dialect group of West Low German

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East Middle German dialect

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Germanic language

dialect of Danish

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High German dialect

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extinct Gallo-Romance dialect spoken around the Moselle River in Germany

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languages of a geographic region

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cluster of Upper German dialects

dialect of the Latvian language spoken by the Kursenieki of the Curonian Spit

dialect of East Low German

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Low German dialect

dialect

Petuh (Petu) is a mixed language of Flensburg, a mixture of German, Low German, Danish, and Southern Jutish spoken in Flensburg on the German–Danish border. It is High German in vocabulary (with some Danish concepts and loan translations), but it has Danish and Low Saxon grammar and syntax. It originated in the 19th century and was still vibrant in the 1950s, but it is now on the verge of extinction.

Kleverlandish (; ) is a group of Low Franconian dialects spoken on both sides of the Dutch-German border along the Meuse and Rhine rivers.

Ponaschemu [] is a mixed language that was formed by mixing German and Lower Sorbian. Sometimes it is taken as a dialect of German.

Rotwelsch (, "beggar's foreign (language)") or Gaunersprache ( "crook's language") also Khokhmer Loshn (from Yiddish "", "tongue of the wise") is a secret language, a cant or thieves' argot, spoken by groups (primarily marginalized groups) in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Bohemia. The language is based on a mix of Low German, Yiddish, Hebrew, Romani, Latin, and Czech with a High German substrate.

dialect of Polish spoken in northeastern Poland

West Low German dialect