1 In the sociolinguistic sense, the (supraregionally valid, normed, codified) standard language, in contrast to the colloquial language, which differs regionally, or to the dialects, which are restricted to smaller regions. 2 In the...

The High German languages (in German, Hochdeutsch) are any of the varieties of standard German, Luxembourgish and Yiddish as well as the local German dialects spoken in central and southern Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Luxembourg and in...