- published: 09 Mar 2014
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German (Deutsch [ˈdɔʏtʃ] ( listen)) is a West Germanic language related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union.
Most German vocabulary is derived from the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family. Significant minorities of words are derived from Latin and Greek, with a smaller amount from French and English.
German is written using the Latin alphabet. In addition to the 26 standard letters, German has three vowels with umlauts (Ä/ä, Ö/ö, and Ü/ü) and the letter ß.
The history of the language begins with the High German consonant shift during the migration period, separating Old High German dialects from Old Saxon. The earliest testimonies of Old High German are from scattered Elder Futhark inscriptions, especially in Alemannic, from the 6th century AD; the earliest glosses (Abrogans) date to the 8th; and the oldest coherent texts (the Hildebrandslied, the Muspilli and the Merseburg Incantations) to the 9th century. Old Saxon at this time belongs to the North Sea Germanic cultural sphere, and Low Saxon was to fall under German rather than Anglo-Frisian influence during the Holy Roman Empire.
Actors: Pierre Bokma (actor), Orlow Seunke (director), Truus Dekker (actress), Mieke de Jong (writer), Ramsey Nasr (actor), Margot Ros (actress), Mirjam Van Rijn (producer),
Plot: The story exists of two parts. In the first part the new music teacher at the school of a Dutch island falls in love with the gymnastics teacher. After a while of having a love affair though, his colleague choses for his girlfriend and marries her. In the second part, thirty years later, we see the music teacher going back to the island he left after the wedding.
Keywords: 1960s, gay-interest, homosexual, island, love, ménage-à-trois, school