Introduction to german language....

German is a West Germanic language, thus related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. It is one of the world's major languages and the most widely spoken first language in the European Union. Globally, German is spoken by approximately 120 million native speakers and also by about 80 million non-native speakers. Standard German is widely taught in schools, universities and Goethe Institutes worldwide....



Origins

The history of the language begins with the High German consonant shift during the migration period, separating Old High German dialects fromOld Saxon. The earliest testimonies of Old High German are from scattered Elder Futhark inscriptions, especially in Alemannic, from the 6th century AD; the earliest glosses (Abrogans) date to the 8th; and the oldest coherent texts (the Hildebrandslied, the Muspilli and the Merseburg Incantations) to the 9th century. Old Saxon at this time belongs to the North Sea Germanic cultural sphere, and Low Saxon should fall under German rather than Anglo-Frisian influence during the Holy Roman Empire.

As Germany was divided into many different states, the only force working for a unification or standardization of German during a period of several hundred years was the general preference of writers trying to write in a way that could be understood in the largest possible area.

GERMAN NUMBERS


                       
German Numbers :



0
1
2
3
4
5
zero
Null
one
Eins
two
Zwei
three
Drei
four
Vier
five
Fünf
6
7
8
9
10
11
six
Sechs
seven
Sieben
eight
Acht
nine
Neun
ten
Zehn
eleven
Elf
12
13
14
15
16
17
twelve
Zwölf
thirteen
Dreizehn
fourteen
Vierzehn
fifteen
Fünfzehn
sixteen
Sechzehn
seventeen
Siebzehn

18
19
20
21
22
eighteen
Achtzehn
nineteen
Neunzehn
twenty
Zwanzig
twenty-one
Einundzwanzig
twenty-two
Zweiundzwanzig

30
40
50
60
70
80
thirty
Dreißig
forty
Vierzig
fifty
Fünfzig
sixty
Sechzig
seventy
Siebzig
eighty
Achtzig

90
100
1,000
ninety
Neunzig
one hundred
Einhundert
one thousand
Eintausend
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