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German-speaking   /dʒˈərmən-spˈikɪŋ/   Listen
German-speaking

adjective
1.
Able to communicate in German.





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"German-speaking" Quotes from Famous Books



... They are making such inconceivable blunders as the expropriation of the Poles and the colonization scheme of Posen. It is a striking fact that with the single possible exception of the Galicians—who fear Russia even more than they detest Austria—there is not a single non-German-speaking people either in the German Empire or in the Austrian Empire who has accepted the rule of the Teuton. Alsatian and Dane, Pole and Tchech, Croatian and Roumanian—all the subject races are equally disaffected. They may ...
— German Problems and Personalities • Charles Sarolea
... century rulers troubled themselves little about matters apparently of such minor importance as the languages in which their subjects conversed and read. Even the French did not try to touch the German-speaking inhabitants of Alsace, and Copenhagen could become a centre of German letters, while French maintained itself at the Court of Berlin. All this was changed by the Revolution, and Napoleon was the first deliberately to convert the whole fabric of French schools and the university into an instrument ...
— The Unity of Civilization • Various


Words linked to "German-speaking" :   communicatory, communicative


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