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420/430. Library of Congress. PD-PF. Universal Decimal. 811.11. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Germanic languages. Language portal. For a list of words relating to Germanic languages, see the Germanic languages category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Main article: Germanic languages.
日耳曼语族. 日耳曼語族 （英語： Germanic languages ）是 印歐語系 下列的一個語言分支，現時全球有5.15億人以各日耳曼語爲母語 [nb 1] ，主要分佈於 歐洲 、 北美洲 、 大洋洲 及 非洲南部 。. 該語支分佈最廣泛的語言是英語，爲全球20億人所使用（L1及L2）。. 所有 ...
North Sea Germanic. North Sea Germanic, also known as Ingvaeonic ( / ˌɪŋviːˈɒnɪk / ING-vee-ON-ik ), [2] is a postulated grouping of the northern West Germanic languages that consists of Old Frisian, Old English, and Old Saxon, and their descendants. Ingvaeonic is named after the Ingaevones, a West Germanic cultural group or proto-tribe ...
Linguistics. Publication date. 2014. Media type. Hardcover, paperback, ebook. ISBN. 978-0-415-35548-3 (Hardcover) Language Contact and the Origins of the Germanic Languages is a 2014 scholarly book by the Dutch linguist Peter Schrijver, published by Routledge. [1]
Today, the individual Indo-European languages with the most native speakers are English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Hindi–Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi, French and German each with over 100 million native speakers; many others are small and in danger of extinction. In total, 46% of the world's population (3.2 billion people) speaks an Indo ...
Germanic parent language. In historical linguistics, the Germanic parent language ( GPL ), also known as Pre-Germanic Indo-European ( PreGmc) or Pre-Proto-Germanic ( PPG ), is the reconstructed language of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family that was spoken c. 2500 BC – c. 500 BC, after the branch had diverged from Proto ...
The Germanic substrate hypothesis attempts to explain the purportedly distinctive nature of the Germanic languages within the context of the Indo-European languages.Based on the elements of Common Germanic vocabulary and syntax which do not seem to have cognates in other Indo-European languages, it claims that Proto-Germanic may have been either a creole or a contact language that subsumed a ...
