Hochdeutsch is the modern standard form of this language
[DOC] [TLE] Which languages have the greatest distance from the spoken ... [PAR] For centuries after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, its occupants continued 
to write in ... Arabic is notable in that its written form (Modern Standard Arabic) is 
written universally .... A similar situation exists in Germany where there is a formal
, or more standardized German (Hochdeutsch) that everyone understands, while
... [DOC] [TLE] Can all German speakers - Duolingo [PAR] Hochdeutsch is standard German - the variety that is written, taught in schools ... 
learn High German as a foreign language - so they learned the standard version.