German Language & German Translation
Information and resources on German language & German language translation. Germanic languages, which form a subfamily of Indo-European languages, are spoken today by 540 million people in many parts of the world but chiefly in Europe and North America. Traditionally, Germanic languages comprise three major branches: West Germanic, North Germanic, and East Germanic. The Germanic languages broke away from other Indo-European languages, forming a clearly distinguishable and independent group of closely related dialects, usually referred to as Proto-Germanic. A more-or-less regular series of sound changes was one of the distinguishing features of this separation. Below are links that provide information about the German language.
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Activa German-Spanish Dictionary
Enter a term or download the whole 15,000 entries from Spanish as it is spoken in Spain.
English-German and German-English Dictionary
Translate more than 132,000 words and idioms from German to English and vice versa.
Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany: German-English Acronyms and Abbreviations Guide
Browse a database with a bias towards acronyms used in chemistry or spectroscopy.
Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada: German Business Dictionary
Locate words and phrases most often used in the business world.
Technische Universitat Clausthal, Germany: English-German Translation Dictionary
Translate English-German words into German-English equivalents by entering a single word or phrase.
TravLang.com: Dutch-German Dictionary
Learn about the freeware multilingual program, Ergane to translate German to Dutch.
TravLang.com: German Grammar Hand Book
Browse this concise and comprehensive handbook reference for German grammar.
Universitat Stuttgart, Germany: Swabian-English Guide
Delve into the mysteries of this German tribal dialect and its vocabulary and other oddities.
University of Maryland, College Park: German Language Information and Resources Guide
Browse a categorized index of Internet resources in German, learning aids, teaching resources, and more.
University of Washington, Bothell: Aant to Wuppdi Vocabulary Guide
Browse Low Saxon (Low German) words to enjoy and remember.
University of Wisconsin, Madison: Germanic Linguistics Occasional Papers
Find out about this student-run electronic archive for graduate students in linguistics.
University of Wisconsin, Madison: Germanists Information and Resources Guide
Browse this collection of selected links of "academic" interest to Germanists.
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee: German Language and Literature Resources Guide
See an extensive collection of links to German language and literature resources online.