![]() "These are countries where the ruling class was traditionally German," he said. ![]() ![]() The Czech Republic, Haspelmath said, was a traditionally German-speaking area, with Franz Kafka the most well known German-speaking writer born and raised in Prague. "Germany in the 19th century was at the top of the world and everyone looked up to Germany in the sciences, technology and humanities," he said. Russia's history of German cultural and lingustic influence dates back to the 18th and 19th centuriesĪccording to Martin Haspelmath, senior linguist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, major central European languages borrowed many words from German partly due to Germany's prestigious image in the 18th and 19th centuries. ![]()
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