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EarlyNewHighGerman (ENHG) is a term for the period in the history of the German language variously defined as beginning between 1350 and 1500 and ending between 1650 and 1750.
There was no standard EarlyNewHighGerman, but the period saw the gradual development of forms of German, in writing at least, which were not simply reflections of local dialect.
Das Bonner Frühneuhochdeutschkorpus The Bonn Corpus of EarlyNewHighGerman
German (called Deutsch in German; in German the term germanisch is equivalent to English Germanic), is a member of the western group of Germanic languages and is one of the world's major languages.
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.
Pennsylvania German resembles dialects of the Palatinate, or Hutterite German resembles dialects of Carinthia).