The English word German derives from Latin germanus, which in Roman times meant any member of the various Germanic tribes. You need to replace is with »ss« ( »Maß« in Germany and Austria becomes »Mass« in Switzerland. There is just one exception: In Swiss German there is no »ß«.

e., refers to those who do not speak the right (Slavonic) language. The orthographic rules for German German, Austrian German and Swiss German are the same, as long as you speak of the standard variations of German language. The Slavonic expression for German nemec originally meant ‘ not speaking’, i. Finnish Saksalainen reminds of the tribe of Saxons. Austrians speak ‘High German’, which differs quite significantly from the standard German spoken in Germany. FrenchĪllemand is taken from a Germanic tribe, the Alamani, who settled close to the (Old) French-speaking areas. Only in some other languages, the words designating the German language are etymologically related to deutsch such as tysk in the Nordic languages, duits in Dutch, and tedesco in Italian. The oldest evidence is the Latinized form theodisce in documents of the 8th and 9th centuries (3). The official Austrian dictionary, sterreichisches Wrterbuch, prescribes grammatical and spelling rules that define the official language. It derives from the Old High German adjective thiudisk / diutisk ‘ belonging to the people’ (diot ‘ people’), which in the Carolingian era referred to the various Germanic languages and dialects in Central and Western Europe in contrast to Latin and some of its Romance daughter languages. The indigenous name of the German language is deutsch. Rudolf MUHR (1) and Gerhard STICKEL (2) 1. Revue Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire / Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis, 90, 2012, p.

Austrian german grammar rules