Due to the high percentage of Americans of German origin, a widespread belief has emerged claiming that the US Congress, at ...

A top official in the German state of Bavaria criticized attempts by universities to have students use gender-neutral language, calling it a difficult demand because German nouns are gendered.

German texts are increasingly using symbols like asterisks and colons for more inclusive language. However, Bavaria's conservative government in southern Germany ...

Butchered words and incorrect grammar on WhatsApp and Twitter, and Anglicisms everywhere: For years, critics have been complaining that the German language is deteriorating. But are they right?

Hochdeutsch (standard German) is what's taught in schools, and what you hear on mainstream TV. But a huge variety of dialects are alive and thriving - especially in Bavaria - says Augsburg local Nic ...

Despite their somewhat exotic Bavarian language not many understand the German brass band "LaBrassBanda" has an impressive following all over the world. Manuel Winbeck, a band member, tries to make ...

How important is language acquisition to the integration of skilled immigrants? This is the subject of “Deutsch lernen für ein Leben in Deutschland” (Learning German for a Life in Germany), a report ...

Konrad Duden published his Vollständiges orthographisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (“Complete Orthographic Dictionary of the German Language”) way back in 1880. That was a brilliant stroke of ...

To most people, Yiddish and German are closely related. The languages share many root words and grammatical structures, and most speakers of one language can at least understand an individual speaking ...