The Man Who Invented The German Language

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I invented the Korean language among with other things

"The Man Who Invented [Standard] German"

1871, not 1817, in 1817, Germany was still very much divided

He didn’t „invented“ german, he standardized it.

There is actually a movement quite similar to what Luther did called "Interslavic", which aims to make a language based on the slavic languages than all slavic speakers can understand. There is also a similar movement with all the germanic languages (not just german, but english, dutch, swedish and so on too) called "Folkspraak". It's some really interesting stuff if you're into linguistics and I highly recommend looking into it.

The Grimm brothers also helped in unifying the language with their collection of old folk tales

„Wenn der Groschen im Kasten klingt, die Seele aus dem Fegefeuer springt“ Indulgence trade in a nutshell 😉 Cheers from Germany 👍🇩🇪

The th in Martin Luther is not pronounced like an English th but like a t. I just wanted to explain his name since the channel is called Name Explained. Okaybye.

Just to clear up the confusion Patrick obviously had in the video: High and Low German aren't really dialects of German like Saxon, Bavarian and so on, but rather the two big families of German languages. In Northwestern Germany (and the Netherlands for that matter), Low German (Plattdeutsch or Niederdeutsch) dialects and languages are more common, while in southeastern Germany, the High German (Hochdeutsch) dialects are more common. But nevertheless, a very interesting video. I never knew Martin Luther "created" the unified German language.

"Martin Luther hate grammar rhetoric and logic..." It's like finding out Tiger Woods hated golfing.

What about Finnish? It is basically the same thing as German and was "created" by Mikael Agricola (who actually was Luther's student).

Mikael Agricola translated the Bible into Finnish and he played a big part in creating the written language for Finnish

Not to be a jerk but I think you meant 1871 Germany became a nation

German was a language back then, but there was no standard version of it. The language was made up of several dialects, that can be categorised into higher and lower German. It was hard to understand each other, but it still was one language. The thing Luther did was inventing a language for all germans most people could understand

"the only words from God are the ones in the bible"... "this isn't a word-for-word translation of the bible"

Not even 'kinda'... Luther put a lot more effort into creating a widely understood, idiomatic translation of the bible than probably anyone before him, and he deserves credit for that, but he in no way 'invented' the (modern) German language. Regional written standards (distinct from dialects) existed before Luther, and his translation is mostly based on the one used in east central Germany at the time. I am not saying his work wasn't influential for standardization, without it modern German would certainly look different (more western or southern dialect features probably), but it is hardly the one main source.

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Catholic church: *exists Martin Luther: I'm about to end this man's whole career

The different German "languages" were extremely similar and had very few differences so it wasn't as hard as combining 2 random languages he really invented standard German which combined dialectical differences