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German Standard German, Standard German of Germany, or High German of Germany, is the variety of Standard German that is written and spoken in Germany. It is the variety of German most commonly taught to foreigners. It is not uniform, which means it has considerable regional variation. Linguist Anthony Fox writes that British English is more standardized than German Standard German.

References

1. ^ Russ (1994:7, 61–66, 70, 72, 84–86, 89–91, 96)
2. ^ Sanders (2010:194 and 196–200)
3. Fox (1990:292)
4. Dürscheid & Giger (2010:176)
5. Horvath & Vaughan (1991:101)
6. Fox (1990:292–293)
7. ^ Fox (1990:293)

Bibliography

• Dürscheid, Christa; Giger, Nadio (2010), "Variation in the case system of German – linguistic analysis and optimality theory" (PDF), in Lenz, Alexandra N.; Plewnia, Albrecht (eds.), Grammar between Norm and Variation, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, ISBN 978-3-631-61004-6
• Fox, Anthony (1990), The Structure of German, New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., ISBN 978-0-19-815821-9
• Horvath, Barbara M.; Vaughan, Paul (1991), Community languages: a handbook, Multilingual Matters, Multilingual Matters, ISBN 978-1853590917
• Russ, Charles (1994), The German Language Today: A Linguistic Introduction, London: Routledge, ISBN 978-0-203-42577-0
• Sanders, Ruth H. (2010), German: Biography of a Language: Biography of a Language, New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., ISBN 978-0-19-538845-9

• National varieties of German
• Standard languages