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The German language or German (German Deutsch) belongs to the branch of West Germanic languages. It is the most widely spoken language in the European Union and is ranked among the world languages.
Germanic dialects are divided according to the change of sounds into two categories called Upper Germanic dialects and Lower Germanic dialects. These have been reformed into the literary language or standard German language which is based on Upper German dialects.
History
QFrom the time of Jakob Grimm, German was studied for a long time from the point of view of the history of Indo-European languages. There were enough starting points for such a classification. Later, after branching out into language studies separately, according to one trunk, German appeared in a Western language branch of the German family, alongside Old English and Frisian. This branch was further divided into North and East German. Today, this Germanic language is seen more as a common development of the remnants of the languages of the peoples that have been concentrated in central Europe over time. Thus, the speech of the Franks essentially belongs to another branch within the German family, that b.f. the Bavarian-German dialect, or the Saxon dialect. There is also no evidence that German was separated from the western branch of the German-speaking family. The very novelty of sound impulses in upper and lower German is not to be seen as a division but rather as part of language development. The history of the German language is the history of the relations between large groups of dialects as well as the corresponding education in them for the unified and written language.
Depending on the ideological and political currents throughout history, even in terms of language, the regions in which those currents have operated come to the surface. Often these currents are created and carried by missionaries. An interesting moment in the history of the German language is the writing of the year 765 (Abrogans). After which in the VII century, the influence centered in the west stands out, i.e. of the Frankish rulers who aim to have had the unification of the dialects of the Franks, Saxons, Bavarians and Germans. But the end of the French rule, the penetrations of the Huns and the Normans did not allow long for this language to be strengthened. Other moments can be drawn from the history of Germany, where the strong ruling centers of the Saxons, less of the Germans, can be distinguished. Only a small number of features had managed to reach the entire German space. Thus Low German began to diminish exchange.
German language in Albania
German, the language of great thinkers and poets, has always had and still has a special place in Albania among its European sisters. With a lexical fund of about 450,000 words, it rarely reflects the development of philosophy, science and technology by the German people. According to renowned lexicographer Luc Makensen in ten German words one comes from the field of technique.
Interest in the German language in Albania has always been great. What is special about this is that the German world has also paid special attention to Albanians and their language. The Germans were among the first to translate Barletti's major work on Skanderbeg, as early as 1510, from where it then found radiation in all European languages without exception. Albanians have also nurtured uninterrupted ties with the German world. Thus when the Swedish historian Johann Erich Tunman, a professor at the University of Hales in Germany, was publishing in 1774 his remarkable work on the history and language of the Albanians, laying a foundation stone for their autochthony in the lands today, the Albanians had direct connections. with this scholar and had also donated to him the Greek-Slavic-Albanian trilingual dictionary of Teodor Kavalioti from Voskopoja, which he included in his work. In this stream of close and uninterrupted relations, it is no coincidence that J. G. von Hahni had K. Kristoforidhi as his first teacher of Albanian.
These mutual connections have reached to the present day, even intensifying in all directions and keeping it alive and even increasing more and more interest in the German language among us.