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The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people [nb 1] mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa. The most widely spoken Germanic language, English, is also the world's most widely spoken language with an estimated 2 billion speakers.
- West Germanic Languages
The West Germanic branch is classically subdivided into...
- List of Germanic Languages
The Germanic languages include some 58 (SIL estimate)...
- 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...
- German Language
German is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West...
- North Germanic languages
The North Germanic languages make up one of the three...
- West Germanic Languages
The Germanic languages are a group of Indo-European languages. They came from one language, Proto-Germanic, which was first spoken in Scandinavia in the Iron Age. Today, the Germanic languages are spoken by around 515 million people as a first language. English is the most spoken Germanic language, with 360-400 million native speakers.