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3 days ago · The West Germanic languages include the three most widely spoken Germanic languages: English with around 360–400 million native speakers; German, with over 100 million native speakers; and Dutch, with 24 million native speakers.
- West Germanic Languages
The West Germanic languages constitute the largest of the...
- List of Germanic Languages
East Germanic languages; North Germanic languages; West...
- East Germanic Languages
The East Germanic languages, also called the Oder-Vistula...
- Limburgish
A Limburgish speaker, recorded in Slovakia. Limburgish...
- List of Languages by Total Number of Speakers
Principal language families of the world (and in some cases...
- English Language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European...
- Germanic peoples
The Germanic languages are traditionally divided between...
- Proto-Germanic language
Proto-Germanic (abbreviated PGmc; also called Common...
- West Germanic Languages
2 days ago · English language, a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family that is closely related to the Frisian, German, and Dutch languages. It originated in England and is the dominant language of the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand.
- The English language is an Indo-European language in the West Germanic language group. Modern English is widely considered to be the lingua franca...
- As of 2020 there are 1.27 billion English speakers around the world. This makes it the most spoken language, ahead of Mandarin Chinese (1.12 billio...
- There has been much public and academic debate on whether African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is a dialect of English or its own separate la...
- Having emerged from the dialects and vocabulary of Germanic peoples—Angles, Saxons, and Jutes—who settled in Britain in the 5th century CE, English...
- English is not the official language of the United States of America. The country does not have an official language on the federal level. Many sta...
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2 days ago · The Dutch language is a West Germanic language that is the national language of the Netherlands and, with French and German, one of the three official languages of Belgium. Dutch is also called Netherlandic or Dutch Nederlands; in Belgium it is called Flemish or Flemish Vlaams.
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- Dutch is the language of most of the Netherlands, of northern Belgium, and of a small part of France along the North Sea. Dutch is also used as the...
- The Dutch language derives from Low Franconian, the speech of the Western Franks, which was restructured through contact with speakers of North Sea...
May 10, 2024 · Anglo-Saxon. Fleming and Walloon. Saxon. Germanic peoples, any of the Indo-European speakers of Germanic languages. The origins of the Germanic peoples are obscure.
