The 27th edition of the Duden, the dictionary considered the ultimate arbiter of the German language is out and the book contains 5,000 new additions to the Deutsche vocabulary, reports the German ...

The 29th edition of the Duden dictionary is published on Tuesday. (Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP)AFP PHOTO / JOHN MACDOUGALL (Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP) The new Duden dictionary is thicker than ...

Duden, a German-language dictionary, is facing pushback from the country’s Jewish community over a disclaimer on its definition for “Jew” which said that the term can be “perceived as discriminatory.” ...

BERLIN (AP) — The leading dictionary of standard German has changed its definition of Jew, or “Jude” in German, after a recent update caused an uproar in the country’s Jewish community — a move ...

German is the standard language that is used above all in Germany, Austria and parts of Switzerland. But how did German come to be the standard language? And how has the perception of standard German ...

“For me, the word ‘Jew’ is neither a swear word nor discriminatory,” Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, told German media Deutsche Presse-Agentur. Germany’s leading ...