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== Mistakable sentence ==
 
Quote from the section "Noun inflection": ''Inflection for case on the noun itself is required in the singular for strong masculine and neuter nouns in the genitive and sometimes in the dative. '''Both of these cases are losing ground to substitutes in informal speech.''' The dative ending is considered somewhat old-fashioned in many contexts and often dropped.''
 
One must distinguish here between the wide-spread loss of the ''genitive case'' in informal speech and that of the ''dative ending''. The genitive is not much used in colloquial German (des Mannes > von dem Mann), but there is no tendency to avoid the dative. Only the noun ending (''dem Mann'''e''''') is usually lost, but the dative as such is stable because the article retains its dative form.
 
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== poor article contradicts itself in multiple ways ==
== German MOOC course ==
 
* intro: "or more precisely High German" and table with "Language family ... High German" vs. ISO 639-3 in the talble: "nds – Low German"
Please add to external links
*: Low German is not High German
* nativename in the table: "{{lang|de|Deutsch}}" vs. bar – Bavarian etc. in the table
*: in the various dialects like Bavarian the term for German is different, e.g. in ksh – Kölsch it's ''Dütsch'' (cp. [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/D%C3%BCtsch#Central_Franconian WT])
* WP speaks of "[[High German languages|High German language'''s''']]" (plural), yet this is only "[[German language]]" (singular). German is broader than High German, so it should be ''German language'''s''''', or German here is short for [[Standard German]] which already has a more proper article.
date=June 2023
 
I am moving this here ''sic erat'' from a [[Template:Cleanup|cleanup hatnote]] posted by [[Special:Contributions/2003:DE:3702:B26D:879:1A08:8D8A:FC3|this anonymous user]]. [[User:Dylanvt|Dylanvt]] ([[User talk:Dylanvt|talk]]) 20:56, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
*<nowiki>[http://worldmentoringacademy.com/www/index.php?ctg=lesson_info&lessons_ID=1080 MOOC German language course]</nowiki>: Free German course with Audio, Text, G+ hangouts, media, & Culture.
 
== ReferencesCluster ==
From the article:
<references />
:The [[Low Franconian languages|Low Franconian]] dialects [...] Nevertheless, topologically these dialects are structurally and phonologically far more similar to Dutch, than to German and form both the smallest and most divergent dialect cluster within the contemporary German language area.{{sfn|Niebaum|2011|p=98}}
:<references />
:* {{cite book |last=Niebaum |first=Hermann |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eG0l63rBggsC |title=Einführung in die Dialektologie des Deutschen |date=2011 |publisher=Niemeyer |isbn=978-3-11-091654-6 |edition=2nd |location=Tübingen |language=de |trans-title=Introduction to the dialectology of German |chapter=Wege und Schwerpunkte der deutschen Dialektologie |trans-chapter=Ways and focuses of German dialectology }}
As for the source:
* That's not properly cited, as it lacks the other author Jürgen Macha and as the year or edition is wrong (1st 1999, 2nd 2006, 3rd 2014 - 2011 could only be a reprint or a re-release as e-book or something)
* Quoting from the 3rd ed. as here the text is (basically) the same and as this can still be viewed online:<br/>Hermann Niebaum, Jürgen Macha, ''Einführung in die Dialektologie des Deutschen'', 3rd ed., 2014, p. 104 ([https://books.google.com/books?id=gSjoBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA104])): "Auf der Karte sind ebenfalls drei Hauptgebiete, erkennbar, die sich, wie Nerbonne/Siedle (2005:[...]) festellen, „im Wesentlichen mit den Verteilungen des Nieder-, Ostmittel- und Oberdeutschen (Cluster 1, 4 und 5) nach traditioneller Einteilung decken, sowie ein heterogenes Gebiet im Westen, das in etwa Ripuarisch (Cluster 3) und Niederrheinisch-Westmünderländisch (Cluster 2) entspricht.“
Thus:
* The source doesn't state that Low Franconian is the smallest and most divergent cluster. It's stating that ''Ripuarisch + Niederrheinisch-Westmünsterländisch'' form a heterogeneous area. So both the dialect(s) and the [[Comparison (grammar)|degree of comparison]] (superlative vs. positive) aren't sourced.
* Article stated: "within the contemporary German language area". There's a difference between "in Germany" and "in the German language area". The German language area also comprehends Austria and Switzerland. As the source only considered Germany, the wording in the article wasn't correct.
-06:54, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
 
== Germanics ==
== "Deutsh" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] ==
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A discussion is taking place to address the redirect [[:Deutsh]]. The discussion will occur at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 August 2#Deutsh]] until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. <!-- from Template:RFDNote --> [[User:Soumya-8974|Soumya-8974]] <sup>[[User talk:Soumya-8974|talk]]</sup> <sub>[[Special:Contributions/Soumya-8974|contribs]]</sub> <sup>[[Special:PrefixIndex/User:Soumya-8974|subpages]]</sup> 12:46, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
 
The German article on the Germanics https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanen says, that the concept can be defined historically outside the linguistic sphere. [[User:Sarcelles|Sarcelles]] ([[User talk:Sarcelles|talk]]) 19:28, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
== Map of pre-war german dialects ==
 
:The very concept of ''Germanics'' is disputed by science in Germany, this German article says sourcedly. Furthermore, ''Germanics'' hardly is used as a concept for the present by Germans nowadays. [[User:Sarcelles|Sarcelles]] ([[User talk:Sarcelles|talk]]) 08:16, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
I think that this could fit well in the "History" section to show the dialects of German (and Dutch) in the early 1900s: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karte_der_deutschen_Mundarten_(Brockhaus).jpg
::One problem here is that "Germanics" is simply not a term found in the English-language literature, so arguing that there's something wrong with it is entirely beside the point. --[[User:Pfold|Pfold]] ([[User talk:Pfold|talk]]) 08:45, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
:The word "Germanics" doesn't appear in the article, so why are you discussing this here? [[User:Largoplazo|Largoplazo]] ([[User talk:Largoplazo|talk]]) 09:56, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
::12 pages link to [[Germanics]], a redirect to [[German peoples]].
::Maybe we should discuss this on another talk page. [[User:Sarcelles|Sarcelles]] ([[User talk:Sarcelles|talk]]) 04:51, 26 April 2024 (UTC)