The Linguasphere Register

of the world’s languages and speech communities

The linguascale

Change sector or zone

Geosector 0= AFRICA

Phylosector 1= AFRO-ASIAN

Geosector 2= AUSTRALASIA

Phylosector 3= AUSTRONESIAN

Geosector 4= EURASIA

Phylosector 5= INDO-EUROPEAN

Geosector 6= NORTH-AMERICA

Phylosector 7= SINO-INDIAN

Geosector 8= SOUTH-AMERICA

Phylosector 9= TRANSAFRICAN

Phylosector 5=. INDO-EUROPEAN

52-ACB. DEUTSCH + NEDERLANDS

Net Arterial language

GERMAN + DUTCH, deutsch + "dutch", ’teutonic’.

The modern spoken and recorded idioms of this net are classified below within the following outer-languages: [52-ACB-a] Nederlands + Vlaams for traditional and standardised idioms of Dutch, spoken or recorded in the Low Countries; [52-ACB-b] Afrikaans + Creool for semi-creolised and creolised idioms of Dutch spoken by communities outside Europe; [52-ACB-c] Deutsch-N. (Norddeutsch) for traditional and standardised idioms of ’Low’ German (in the geographic sense, excluding Dutch); [52-ACB-d] Deutsch-C. (Mitteldeutsch) for traditional and standardised idioms of Central German (including New ’High’ German in the cultural sense); [52-ACB-e] Deutsch-S. (Süddeutsch + Österreichisch) for traditional non-Swiss idioms of ’Upper’ German (in the geographic sense, including the medieval literary language known as Middle ’High’ German, in both the geographic and cultural sense); [52-ACB-f] Schwytzertütsch for the distinctive southwestern idioms of Upper German spoken in the Swiss cantons and adj.


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