A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PHONETICS, MORPHOLOGY, AND PRAGMATICS IN ENGLISH AND GERMAN
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Analysis, linguistic, cultural, historical, structure, different, observations,Abstract
German and English are members of the Indo-European language family and belong specifically to the West Germanic branch, sharing a common genetic origin that can be traced back to Proto-Germanic. As a result of this shared ancestry, the two languages exhibit notable similarities in core vocabulary, basic syntactic structures, and certain phonological features. However, despite these historical and structural connections, German and English have evolved along distinct developmental paths, leading to significant differences in their phonetic inventories, morphological systems, and pragmatic conventions.
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