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German is a member of the West branch of the Germanic family of languages, which in turn is part of the Indo-European language family.
German is the only official language in Germany, Liechtenstein, and Austria; it shares official status in Belgium (with French and Dutch), Italy (with Italian and French), Switzerland (with French, Italian and Romansh), Luxembourg (with French and Luxembourgish), and Denmark (with Danish).
Pennsylvania German resembles dialects of the Palatinate, or Hutterite German resembles dialects of Carinthia).
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 Fraktur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a specific kind of flletter typefaces; see fraktur (typeface);
a kind of Pennsylvania German folk art; see fraktur (Pennsylvania German folk art)
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fraktur   (95 words)

  
 ipedia.com: German language Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
German (Deutsch), a member of the western group of Germanic languages, is one of the world's major languages.
German is the only official language in Germany, Liechtenstein and Austria; it shares official status in Belgium (with French and Dutch), Italy (with Italian, French and Slovenian), Switzerland (with French, Italian and Romansh), Luxembourg (with French and Luxembourgish), and Denmark (with Danish).
The Low German dialects, or Low Saxon as they are sometimes known more precisely, are more closely related to Lower Franconian languages like Dutch than to the High German dialects, and from a linguist's perspective are not part of the German language proper.
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 Mennonite and Amish Folklore and Folk Arts
The borderline between folk and sociological and anthropological studies is problematic.
The Arts and Architecture of the German Settlements in Missouri.
The Art of Fraktur Schriften among the Dutch-German Mennonites.
www.goshen.edu /english/ervinb/bibliographies/ervinbib.html   (10589 words)

  
 JAIC 1994, Volume 33, Number 1, Article 3 (pp. 33 to 45)
Fraktur: The illuminated manuscripts of the Pennsylvania Dutch.
Weiser, F. Baptismal certificates and gravemarkers: Pennsylvania German folk art at the beginning and at the end of life.
From 1984 to 1985, through the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships for Museum Professionals Program, he worked on the conservation staffs of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, France and the Centro Nationale de Conservacion y Restauracion de Bienes Culturales in Madrid, Spain, studying paper conservation.
aic.stanford.edu /jaic/articles/jaic33-01-003_appx.html   (609 words)

  
 Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: Recent Acquisitions 2000
A contemporary German student has added in manuscript additional commentary, from interlinear glosses to extended annotations in the margins.
The most successful German cookbook of the Renaissance, this volume offers recipes for fish, crab, eel, and beaver; chicken, pig, veal, and venison; sauces, breads, and soups.
Estienne's diatribe against the sloppy printers of his day is a monumentof typographical bibliography and a model of typographer's art.
www.library.yale.edu /beinecke/brblinfo/brblguide_2000.html   (8702 words)

  
 Mennonite Life - Bibliography 1995
Visual arts Wichita '95: an exhibition of works of art on the occasion of the joint conference of the General Conference Mennonite Church and the Mennonite Church, Wichita, Kansas, July 25-30, 1995.
The lives of the illustrious Netherlandish and German painters, from the first edition of the Schilder-boeck (1603-1604): preceded by the lineage, circumstances and place of birth, life and works of Karel van Mander, painter and poet and likewise his death and burial, from the second edition of the Schilder-boeck (1616-1618).
Waterloo: Waterloo Chapter of the Pennsylvania German Folklore Society of Ontario, 1994.
www.bethelks.edu /mennonitelife/bibliographies/1995.html   (4617 words)

  
 Auction Catalogs of Americana
American Folk Art from the Collection of Mr.
Pennsylvania German Folk Art and Decorative Arts from the Collection of Mr.
Pennsylvania German Folk Art From The Collection of Mr.
www.ephemerarts.com /Amer.htm   (2618 words)

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