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v. t. e. 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
Bavarian. Northern Bavarian (including Nuremberg) Central...
- 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...
- West Germanic Languages
Proto-Germanic (abbreviated PGmc; also called Common Germanic) is the reconstructed proto-language of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages . Proto-Germanic eventually developed from pre-Proto-Germanic into three Germanic branches during the fifth century BC to fifth century AD: West Germanic, East Germanic and North Germanic. [1]
- c. 500 BC-200 BC
- Germanic languages
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L'inglese è di gran lunga la lingua germanica occidentale più parlata, con oltre un miliardo di locutori in tutto il mondo. In Europa, le tre lingue germaniche occidentali più diffuse sono l'inglese, il tedesco e l'olandese. Il gruppo comprende decine di altre lingue, tra cui il frisone, il basso tedesco, lo scots, il lussemburghese, l ...
- gmw
- ~1 300 000 000
- latina
German ( Standard High German: Deutsch, pronounced [dɔʏtʃ] ⓘ) [10] is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol. It is also an official language of Luxembourg ...
English is the most spoken Germanic language, with 360-400 million native speakers. [2] The Germanic languages are the East Germanic languages (all extinct ), the North Germanic languages , and the West Germanic languages .
