Community German
As a common German of standard German is vocabulary referred to the German in the entire language area is identical: in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Belgium (East Belgium), Italy (South Tyrol), Liechtenstein and Luxembourg. For many situations, however, there are no common German expressions, only variants . The incomplete communal German vocabulary can therefore generate neither a variety nor a superordinate standard German .
In the early modern period, in the 16th and 17th centuries, communal German was also a synonym for the Upper German written language , which was then used as a literary language in the Upper German-speaking area, especially in Switzerland, Bavaria and Austria, and was in opposition to the East-Central German language of the Meissen chancellery was also expanded and standardized, but ultimately did not prevail and was superseded by Gottsched's high German in the late 18th century . The term , which was previously written in common German , was coined as early as the second half of the 15th century by the southern German printing houses in Augsburg, Nuremberg and Strasbourg.
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- ↑ Arno Schirokauer : On the meaning of "community German" . In: Proceedings of the Modern Language Association of America (PMLA). Vol. 63, No. 2 (June 1948), pp. 717-719, JSTOR 459438 .