German

German is an Indo-European language, belonging to the Germanic branch of the family. It is spoken mainly in Germany as well as Austria, parts of the RTC, Bohemia, Jervaine, the Scandinavian Realm, and certain provinces of the North American League due to immigration in the 19th century.

"German" or "German language" on its own is commonly understood both *here* and *there* as meaning the Standard German variant, which was primarily derived from High German. In IB, the much looser structure of the Holy Roman Empire has meant that standardisation did not happen like it did *here* and language variants like Daitsch are still around and reasonably healthy.

Indo-European Languages
Germanic Languages
North Germanic		West Germanic						East Germanic
Eastern subgroup	Western subgroup	Low Germanic (Anglo-Frisian)		Continental-Germanic				Gothic	Burgundian † Lombardic † Vandalic †
		Anglic	Frisian	Franconian	Saxon	High German	Feytish
Danish Gutnish (Gutemål) Riksmål Swedish (Sveamål)	Faroese Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian (Landsmål)	English Northumbrian Scots Wessish † Emisc	East Frisian North Frisian West Frisian	Afrikaans Batavian (Dutch) Cruzan	Low Saxon	Alemannic Bavarian Bohemian Daitsch German Luxemburgish Pennsylvaanish Rhenish Yiddish	Føtisk	Crimean Gothic Gepid † Low Vissian