4. =TEUTONS.=--The English language was introduced into this country by bands of warlike colonists from Northwestern Germany, who drove the old inhabitants to the mountainous regions in the west of the island. Those colonists were variously called Angles, Saxons, and Jutes; but they all belonged to the Teutonic race, and their speech was a branch of the Teutonic group of languages. The Teutonic group of languages contains three main sections, from which all the others spring. These three main sections are: =High-German=, =Low-German=, and =Scandinavian=. High-German is the name given to the kind of German which is spoken on the higher lands or table-lands of South Germany--those table-lands which slope from the Central Plain of Europe up to the Alps; and its northern boundary is the pretty river _Main_, which falls into the Rhine. Low-German is the name given to the kind of German spoken in the lowlands of Germany; and the southern boundary of this kind of speech is the river Main--its northern boundary being the Baltic and the North Sea. Scandinavian is the wide general name given to those kinds of Teutonic speech which are found in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland. These divisions may be placed in a table in the following manner: TEUTONIC. | +---------------------+---------------------------+ | | | =High-German.= =Low-German.= =Scandinavian.= | | | +------+-----+ +-----+--+--+------+ +--------+--+---+-------+ | | | | | | | | | | | Old. Middle. New. Dutch. | Frisian. | Icelandic. | Norwegian. | Flemish. English. Danish. Swedish. 5. =HIGH-GERMAN.=--High-German is spoken in the southern parts of Germany--such as Bavaria, Swabia, and other hilly regions; and also in the north and east of Switzerland.--It is this form of the language that has become the book-speech or literary language of the Germans; and its technical name is =New High-German=.