German Standard German
{{Short description|Standard variety of German used in Germany}}
{{Infobox language
|name=German Standard German
|nativename={{lang|de|Bundesdeutsches Hochdeutsch}}
|pronunciation={{IPA|de|ˈbʊndəsdɔʏtʃəs ˈhoːxdɔʏtʃ|}}
|region=Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg
|speakers=?
|familycolor=Indo-European
|fam2=Germanic
|fam3=West Germanic
|fam4=High German
|fam5=Standard German
|isoexception=dialect
|glotto=none
|ietf=de-DE
}}
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German Standard German,{{Harvcoltxt|Russ|1994|pp=7, 61–66, 70, 72, 84–86, 89–91, 96}}{{Harvcoltxt|Sanders|2010|pp=194 and 196–200}} Standard German of Germany,{{Harvcoltxt|Fox|1990|p=292}}{{Harvcoltxt|Dürscheid|Giger|2010|p=176}} or High German of Germany,{{Harvcoltxt|Horvath|Vaughan|1991|p=101}} is the variety of Standard German that is written and spoken in Germany.{{Harvcoltxt|Fox|1990|pp=292–293}} It is the variety of German most commonly taught to foreigners.
It is not uniform, which means it has considerable regional variation.{{Harvcoltxt|Fox|1990|p=293}} Linguist Anthony Fox writes that British English is more standardized than German Standard German.
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- {{Citation |last=Dürscheid |first=Christa |title=Grammar between Norm and Variation |year=2010 |editor-last=Lenz |editor-first=Alexandra N. |editor-last2=Plewnia |editor-first2=Albrecht |chapter=Variation in the case system of German – linguistic analysis and optimality theory |chapter-url=http://www.ds.uzh.ch/_docs/965/2010_Duerscheid_Giger_Variation.pdf |place=Frankfurt am Main |publisher=Peter Lang |isbn=978-3-631-61004-6 |last2=Giger |first2=Nadio}}
- {{Citation |last=Fox |first=Anthony |title=The Structure of German |year=1990 |url=https://archive.org/details/structureofgerma0000foxa |place=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press, Inc. |isbn=978-0-19-815821-9 |url-access=registration}}
- {{Citation |last=Horvath |first=Barbara M. |title=Community languages: a handbook |year=1991 |series=Multilingual Matters |publisher=Multilingual Matters |isbn=978-1853590917 |last2=Vaughan |first2=Paul}}
- {{Citation |last=Russ |first=Charles |title=The German Language Today: A Linguistic Introduction |year=1994 |place=London |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-203-42577-0}}
- {{Citation |last=Sanders |first=Ruth H. |title=German: Biography of a Language: Biography of a Language |year=2010 |place=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press, Inc. |isbn=978-0-19-538845-9}}
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{{Languages of Germany}}
Category:National varieties of German