German Language please(History)?

Good God! "useless explanation about Anglo-Saxon and Indo-European?!" This, my friend, is the basis of the German language.

You see, once upon a time, the ancestors of all the Indo-European peoples were one culture, living together in an area known as the Pontic Steppe (between the Caspian and Black sea in what is now Russia). Then, the Indo-Europeans began to migrate in all directions away from their homeland. Now, keep in mind this all occurred in very ancient history, around 3000-1800 BC.

As the Indo-Europeans moved, their language (known as "Proto-Indo-European" since it is the basis of all Indo-European languages) began to divide into 10 branches:

-Albanian (Albanian is the only surviving member of this group-- in fact, no one even knows for sure if it ever had any relatives)

-Armenian (In the same situation as Albanian)

-Balto-Slavic (languages like Lithuanian, Latvian, Russian, Polish, Serbian, etc)

-Celtic (languages like Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Breton, etc)

-Germanic (languages like German, English, Swedish, Icelandic, Gothic, etc)

-Hellenic (Greek and Pontic Greek are the only surviving languages)

-Indo-Iranian (languages like Kurdish, Farsi, Sanskrit, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali, etc. This is by far the largest branch of the Indo-European family)

-Italic (languages like Latin, Faliscan, Umbrian, Oscan, since languages like Spanish, Portuguese, French, Catalan, Italian and Romanian descended from Latin, they're also Italic)

-Tocharian (an extinct branch)

-Anatolian (another extinct branch, though you may have heard of the Hittites, the arch nemeses of the Egyptian dynasties)

The branch with which we're now concerned is the Germanic branch. The Proto-Indo-European spoken by the Germanic tribes that had split off from the main Indo-European body quickly became what's known as Proto-Germanic. Proto-Germanic is the most basic root of all Germanic languages. The West Germanic languages don't have a clear "specific language" as an ancestor, as the North Germanic languages have Old Norse, because many of them were tailored together from different dialects that descended directly from Proto-Germanic at one point or another.

This is the case with what's now Standard High German (German). It's simply the product of a few thousand years of evolution from Proto-Germanic-- it doesn't have a "specific" ancestor like Old Norse, Anglo-Saxon or Latin. "Old High German" came into being when the West Germanic variant of the Proto-Germanic language split even further into Old Saxon (Low German) and Old High German.

This is the true history of the German language. Unfortunately, a very large portion of it (up to a certain period) is based largely on guesses by linguists based on the changing of morphological and phonetic features of the language over time. For example, there are no true texts written in "Proto-Germanic" or "Proto-Indo-European", they're just reconstructions based on what we know about the common features of all the Germanic or Indo-European languages. They only exist to give linguists a reference against which any Germanic or Indo-European language can be compared.

What you've found IS the answer ... so it's not useless.

Languages are local, often differing from village to village. English, for example, is very different from one location to another. So, languages are often grouped into families.

German is another example. Only in very modern times has there been any single language recognizable as "German" and even that varies considerably between Switzerland, Austria, Southern and Northern Germany.

You've got it backwards. You're looking for a single source ... it doesn't exist. And you're assuming that languages spoken hundreds of years ago were universal, as they are today ... but without mass transportation and communication, all languages are local dialects.

There are locations in Texas inside 50 miles of San Antonio wherein the Lutheran church buildings within the rural locations usually preserve offerings in German. Many of the persons available in the market do not talk English, most effective German.

egyptian - look at my other answer on yourother question it is correct.