Difference between revisions of "German"
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[[Censoria]] <br /> | [[Censoria]] <br /> | ||
[[Civitas Americae]] <br /> | [[Civitas Americae]] <br /> | ||
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[[Crimmond]] <br /> | [[Crimmond]] <br /> | ||
[[Das Viertes Reichsland]] <br /> | [[Das Viertes Reichsland]] <br /> | ||
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[[Errikland]] <br /> | [[Errikland]] <br /> | ||
[[Exetonia]] <br /> | [[Exetonia]] <br /> | ||
+ | [[Gerzam]] <br /> | ||
[[Grazia]] <br /> | [[Grazia]] <br /> | ||
[[Greater Moresnet]] <br /> | [[Greater Moresnet]] <br /> | ||
[[Guffingford]] <br /> | [[Guffingford]] <br /> | ||
+ | [[Hatavia]] (secondary language, along with English)<br /> | ||
[[Heiterland]] <br /> | [[Heiterland]] <br /> | ||
[[Henningania]]<br /> | [[Henningania]]<br /> | ||
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[[Irondin]] <br /> | [[Irondin]] <br /> | ||
[[Itinerate Tree Dweller]] <br /> | [[Itinerate Tree Dweller]] <br /> | ||
+ | [[Kampfers]] (along with [[English]])<br /> | ||
[[Keeslandia]] <br /> | [[Keeslandia]] <br /> | ||
[[Attican Empire|Königsrèch Attika]] <br /> | [[Attican Empire|Königsrèch Attika]] <br /> | ||
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[[Myroria]]<br /> | [[Myroria]]<br /> | ||
[[Nation]] <br /> | [[Nation]] <br /> | ||
+ | [[Neudegg]] <br /> | ||
[[New York Jet Fanatics]] <br /> | [[New York Jet Fanatics]] <br /> | ||
[[No Taxes]] <br /> | [[No Taxes]] <br /> | ||
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[[Rammsteinburg]] <br /> | [[Rammsteinburg]] <br /> | ||
[[RedCommunist]] <br /> | [[RedCommunist]] <br /> | ||
+ | [[Rethan]] <br /> | ||
[[Rothalia (Secondary language)]] <br /> | [[Rothalia (Secondary language)]] <br /> | ||
[[Saxe-Coburg]] <br /> | [[Saxe-Coburg]] <br /> | ||
+ | [[Schneeflocke]] <br /> | ||
[[Segasaturn]] <br /> | [[Segasaturn]] <br /> | ||
[[Sjwitz]] <br /> | [[Sjwitz]] <br /> | ||
[[Skitsojd]] <br /> | [[Skitsojd]] <br /> | ||
+ | [[Slaybackia]] <br /> | ||
[[South Germany]] <br /> | [[South Germany]] <br /> | ||
[[Sozy]] (not official, but popular) <br /> | [[Sozy]] (not official, but popular) <br /> | ||
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[[Tannenmille]] <br /> | [[Tannenmille]] <br /> | ||
[[The Empire of Jason]]* <br /> | [[The Empire of Jason]]* <br /> | ||
+ | [[The Federated Stars]](Holds secondary language status) <br /> | ||
[[The Great Sixth Reich]] <br /> | [[The Great Sixth Reich]] <br /> | ||
[[The Wolfgeschlecht]] <br /> | [[The Wolfgeschlecht]] <br /> | ||
+ | [[Unified Capitalizt States]]<br /> | ||
[[United Deutschland]] <br /> | [[United Deutschland]] <br /> | ||
[[Vexia]] <br /> | [[Vexia]] <br /> | ||
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[[Zadania]] <br /> | [[Zadania]] <br /> | ||
[[The Glorious Empire]] <br /> | [[The Glorious Empire]] <br /> | ||
− | [[Willink]](Secondary language, along with russian) <br /> | + | [[Willink]] (Secondary language, along with russian) <br /> |
[[Zukariaa]] | [[Zukariaa]] | ||
*[[Wikipedia:Germany|RL Germany]] <br /> | *[[Wikipedia:Germany|RL Germany]] <br /> |
Latest revision as of 06:44, 29 October 2007
This article deals with German as it relates to NationStates. For more general information, see the Wikipedia article on this subject.
German is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European family spoken in RL Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, and parts of Switzerland, Belgium and Italy. It is often assumed as national language in NationStates nations, especially if the nation in question is modeled after some historical German state. However most players do not speak German so they Babelfish for translations or use the few things they remember in their text. This practice makes it necessary to distinguish between NS-German and German, which is actually understood (for example: 'States' is far too often translated as 'Zustände' which is the plural of 'status', not of 'state' (See also Germanische Zustände, which should actually be Germanische Staaten).
German has spawned many dialects, one of the foremost being the commonly spoken Attican dialect