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
^ a bRuss (1994:7, 61–66, 70, 72, 84–86, 89–91, 96)
^ a bSanders (2010:194 and 196–200)
^Fox (1990:292)
^Dürscheid & Giger (2010:176)
^Horvath & Vaughan (1991:101)
^Fox (1990:292–293)
^ a bFox (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
