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Westgermanische Sprachen. 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 .
English is by far the most-spoken West Germanic language, with more than 1 billion speakers worldwide. Within Europe, the three most prevalent West Germanic languages are English, German, and Dutch. Frisian, spoken by about 450,000 people, constitutes a fourth distinct variety of West Germanic. The language family also includes Afrikaans ...
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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.
William G. Moulton Anthony F. Buccini. West Germanic languages - Germanic, Indo-European, Dialects: German is spoken throughout a large area in central Europe, where it is the national language of Germany and of Austria and one of the three official languages of Switzerland (the others are French and Italian, and Romansh has a special status).
There are three branches of West Germanic languages: North Sea Germanic / Ingvaeonic languages. Anglo-Frisian languages. English Languages/Anglic. Scots. Yola (extinct) Fingalian (extinct) Frisian languages. West Frisian. East Frisian. North Frisian. Low German / Low Saxon. Northern Low Saxon. Schleswig dialects. Holstein dialects. Westphalian.
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) East Low German Language (3 C) High German languages (6 C) Limburgian language (10 C, 17 F) Low German language (43 C, 1 P, 52 F)
Luxembourgish ( / ˈlʌksəmbɜːrɡɪʃ / LUK-səm-bur-ghish; also Luxemburgish, [2] Luxembourgian, [3] Letzebu (e)rgesch; [4] endonym: Lëtzebuergesch [ˈlətsəbuəjəʃ] ⓘ) is a West Germanic language that is spoken mainly in Luxembourg. About 300,000 people speak Luxembourgish worldwide. [5] The language is a standardized language and ...
