id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6320 German language - Wikipedia .html text/html 19134 2359 67 The majority of its vocabulary derives from the ancient Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family, while a smaller share is partly derived from Latin and Greek, along with fewer words borrowed from French and Modern English. In 1901, the 2nd Orthographical Conference ended with a complete standardisation of the German language in its written form, and the Duden Handbook was declared its standard definition.[19] The Deutsche Bühnensprache (lit. The basis of Standard German developed with the Luther Bible and the chancery language spoken by the Saxon court.[54] However, there are places where the traditional regional dialects have been replaced by new vernaculars based on standard German; that is the case in large stretches of Northern Germany but also in major cities in other parts of the country. The Low Franconian dialects fall within a linguistic category used to classify a number of historical and contemporary West Germanic varieties most closely related to, and including, the Dutch language. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6320.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6320.txt