German language
German language is the official language of both Germany and Austria and one of Switzerland’s official languages. German belongs to the West Germany group of the Indo-European language family and English, Frisian, and Dutch. German is an inflected language with four cases for nouns, pronouns and adjectives, three genders, and strong and weak verbs. Altogether, German is the native language of more than 90 million speakers and thus ranks among the languages with the most native speakers worldwide. German is widely studied as a foreign language and is one of the Western world’s leading cultural languages. German is relatively uniform; it differs in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland no more than Britain English does in the United States and the British Commonwealth. However, as a spoken language, German exists in many dialects, most of which belong to either the high German or Low German dialectal groups.