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The West Germanic branch is classically subdivided into three branches: Ingvaeonic, which includes English and the Frisian languages; Istvaeonic, which encompasses Dutch and its close relatives; and Irminonic, which includes German and its close relatives and variants.
- North Sea Germanic
Das Westgermanische – von der Herausbildung im 3. bis zur...
- Anglo-Frisian Languages
The Anglo-Frisian languages are the Anglic (English, Scots,...
- Elbe Germanic
Elbe Germanic, also called Irminonic or Erminonic, is a term...
- High German Languages
The High German languages (German: hochdeutsche Mundarten,...
- North Sea Germanic
Westgermanische Sprachen sind eine Untergruppe der germanischen Sprachen, welche unter anderem Englisch, Hochdeutsch, Niederländisch, Afrikaans, Niederdeutsch, Friesisch und Jiddisch umfasst. Eine ausführliche Liste der Einzelsprachen findet sich am Ende dieses Artikels.
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The only sharp breaks occur when one enters the French-speaking parts of France and Belgium or the Frisian-speaking parts of the Netherlands and Germany. The most striking dialect differences within this large area are those that divide Dutch–Low German in the lowlands of the north from High German in the highlands of the south.
West Germanic languages, group of Germanic languages that developed in the region of the North Sea, Rhine-Weser, and Elbe. Out of the many local West Germanic dialects the following six modern standard languages have arisen: English, Frisian, Dutch ( Netherlandic -Flemish), Afrikaans, German, and Yiddish.
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. English: West Germanic languages. Esperanto: Okcidentĝermana lingvaro. Subcategories. This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total. * Linguistic maps of West Germanic languages (4 C, 96 F) Anglo-Frisian languages (5 C) Dutch language (56 C, 1 P, 268 F)
The West Germanic Languages are a branch of Germanic languages first spoken in Central Europe and the British Isles. The branch has three parts: the North Sea Germanic languages, the Weser-Rhine Germanic languages, and the Elbe Germanic languages. The most spoken languages in the branch are English, German, and Dutch. [1]
Wolfram Euler (born 5 May 1950) is a German historical linguist and Indo-Europeanist . Scientific work. Euler gained his doctorate (Ph.D.) in 1979 at the University of Giessen under Professor Rolf Hiersche. Euler's thesis was on parallels in nominal formation between Indo-Iranian languages and Ancient Greek.
