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2 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...
- Germanic peoples
The Germanic languages are traditionally divided between...
- Proto-Germanic language
Proto-Germanic (abbreviated PGmc; also called Common...
- West Germanic Languages
1 day ago · English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.
2 days ago · Low German is a West Germanic language spoken mainly in Northern Germany and the northeastern Netherlands. The dialect of Plautdietsch is also spoken in the Russian Mennonite diaspora worldwide. Low German is most closely related to Frisian and English, with which it forms the North Sea Germanic group of the
6 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.
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.
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