BERLIN, Dec. 2 -- The increasing digital communication has positive effects on the German language, said a survey of German expert linguists on Tuesday.

According to a survey conducted by the Digital Society, 44 percent of the surveyed linguists think that the German vocabulary becomes richer through the increased use of digital media.

"Due to digital media, the language does not expire, but evolves and becomes more versatile," said Heike Wiese, professor of the contemporary German language at Potsdam University.

As the survey showed, about 62 percent of the linguists think that the overall impact of digitization on the German language is very large.

"New communication via SMS, chat, e-mail, Facebook and Twitter has caused more and more people to write and read more privately than ever before," said the German language lecturer Dr. Georg Albert of the University of Koblenz-Landau.

According to the surveyed linguists, this increased digital communication also led to decline of the complexity of sentence structures, less attention to the spelling and frequent use of colloquial structures in written communication.

In addition, the surveyed experts also identified a new trend.

Due to the increasing digital communication, the conversational tone in the professional environment in Germany will become informal.