Germanic

adj 1: of or relating to the language of Germans; "the Germanic

sound shifts" [syn: {Germanic}]

2: of or pertaining to the ancient Teutons or their languages;

"Teutonic peoples such as Germans and Scandinavians and

British"; "Germanic mythology" [syn: {Teutonic}, {Germanic}]

3: of a more or less German nature; somewhat German; "Germanic

peoples"; "his Germanic nature"; "formidable volumes

Teutonic in their thoroughness [syn: {German}, {Germanic},

{Teutonic}]

n : a branch of the Indo-European family of languages; members

that are spoken currently fall into two major groups:

Scandinavian and West Germanic [syn: {Germanic}, {Germanic

language}]

German

\j▫r'mn\ A human language written (in latin

alphabet) and spoken in Germany, Austria and parts of

Switzerland.

German writing normally uses four non-{ASCII} characters:

"����", the first three have "umlauts" (two dots over the

top): A O and U and the last is a double-S ("scharfes S")

which looks like the Greek letter beta (except in capitalised

words where it should be written "SS"). These can be written

in ASCII in several ways, the most common are ae, oe ue AE OE

UE ss or sz and the {TeX} versions "a "o "u "A "O "U "s.

See also {ABEND}, {blinkenlights}, {DAU}, {DIN}, {gedanken},

{GMD}, {kluge}.

{Usenet} newsgroup: {news:soc.culture.german}.

{(ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/usenet/news-info/soc.answers/german-faq)},

{(ftp://alice.fmi.uni-passau.de/pub/dictionaries/german.dat.Z)}.

(1995-03-31)