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2 days ago · 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.
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1 day ago · Most linguists classify the dialects of Low German together with English and Frisian as the North Sea Germanic or Ingvaeonic languages. However, most exclude Low German from the group often called Anglo-Frisian languages because some distinctive features of that group of languages are only partially preserved in Low German, for instance the ...
- Estimated 4.35–7.15 million, Up to 10 million second-language speakers (2001)
4 days ago · e. English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.
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The Dutch are considered 'their own thing' because Dutch is a completely different and separate official language. As such, there is a clear linguistic border between the Netherlands and Germany and it's not just one big dialect as you stated. In Switzerland and Austria on the other hand, German is an official language and therefore you could ...
6 days ago · Neil and Sam discuss how languages develop and teach some related vocabulary. This week's question In 2010, Klingon became the first invented language to do what?
Apr 21, 2024 · English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark, and the Netherlands. Which country did the English language come from first?
4 days ago · English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark, and the Netherlands. Over time, English developed its own distinct characteristics and evolved separately from the German language.
