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1 day 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.
- West Germanic Languages
English is by far the most-spoken West Germanic language,...
- 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...
- Germany
The German term Deutschland, originally diutisciu land ('the...
- West Germanic Languages
3 days ago · Gothic (the most archaic well-documented Germanic language, AD c. 350), along with the combined witness of the other old Germanic languages: most importantly, Old English (c. 800 –1000), Old High German (c. 750 –1000) and Old Norse (c. 1100 –1300 AD, with limited earlier sources dating to AD c. 200).
- † indicates this branch of the language family is extinct
- Proto-Indo-European
- One of the world's primary language families
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4 days ago · The unification of Germany ( German: Deutsche Einigung, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈʔaɪnɪɡʊŋ] ⓘ) was a process of building the first nation-state for Germans with federal features based on the concept of Lesser Germany (one without Habsburgs ' multi-ethnic Austria).
- Deutsche Einigung
3 days ago · The Proto-Norse language developed into Old Norse by the 8th century, and Old Norse began to develop into the modern North Germanic languages in the mid-to-late 14th century, ending the language phase known as Old Norse. These dates, however, are not absolute, since written Old Norse is found well into the 15th century.
- Norsemen and their descendants
2 days ago · History[edit] A Luxembourgish speaker, recorded in France. Luxembourgish was considered a German dialect like many others until about World War II but then it underwent ausbau, creating its own standard form in vocabulary, grammar, and spelling and therefore is seen today as an independent language. Luxembourgish managed to gain linguistic ...
5 days ago · Die deutsche Sprache bzw. Deutsch [ dɔɪ̯tʃ] [25] ist eine westgermanische Sprache, die weltweit etwa 90 bis 105 Millionen Menschen als Muttersprache und weiteren rund 80 Millionen als Zweit- oder Fremdsprache dient. Das Deutsche ist eine plurizentrische Sprache, enthält also mehrere Standardvarietäten in verschiedenen Regionen.
