German translations
Aplomb offers professional translation services for English to German and for German to English language pairs.
The German language
- Germans are the most traveled people in the world.
- German-Americans are the largest ethnic group in the United States today.
- German is second only to English as the language of scientific publications.
- German variants include Bavarian Allemannisch, Hessisch, Palatinian, Saxonian, Thuringian, Brandenburgisch, and Low Saxon
German translators
We select the best fit of German translator for each job: that means a translator who is a mother-tongue speaker of the particular strain of the German language required; and a translator who has good experience in the subject matter of the translation.
For example, if you wanted a technical document translated into German, we would only use a translator with the relavent technical experience. Aplomb Translations aims never to compromise on the quality of our translations. And that professional quality depends on the skill and experience of the translator.
One of the main cultural languages of the Western world
German is one of the main cultural languages of the Western world, spoken by approximately 100 million people.
It is the national language of both Germany and Austria, and is one of the four official languages of Switzerland. Additionally it is spoken in eastern France, in the region formerly known as Alsace-Lorraine, in the northern Italian region of Alto Adige, and also in eastern Belgium, Luxembourg, and the principality of Liechtenstein.
There are about 1 ½ million speakers of German in the United States, 500,000 in Canada, and sizable colonies as well in Argentina, Brazil, and such farflung countries as Namibia and Kazakhstan. In Switzerland High German is used in formal settings, but Swiss German, a distinctly different dialect, is used in everyday speech.
Like the other Germanic languages, German is a member of the Indo-European family. Written German is quite uniform, but spoken dialects vary considerably, sometimes to the point where communication becomes a problem.
High German and Low German
The dialects fall within two general divisions: High German (Hochdeutch), spoken in the highlands of the south, and Low German (Plattdeutsch), spoken in the lowlands of the north.
In the Middle Ages Low German was the language of the Hanseatic League and served as a lingua franca over much of northen Europe. An important step in the evolution of a literary standard was Martin Luther’s translation of the Bible into East Central German, a dialect that stood roughly midway between those of the north and south.
Today High German is the standard written language, used almost exclusively in books and newspapers, even in the regions where Low German is more commonly spoken. Low German more closely resembles English and Dutch.
Traditionally German was written in a Gothic style known as Fraktur, which dates from the 14th century. In the period following World War II, however, Fraktur was largely superseded by the Roman characters used throughout the rest of Western Europe. The Roman script used to contain an additional letter, the ß or double s, used only in the lower case, but his was abolished in the spelling reform that took effect in 1998.