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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.
- North Sea Germanic
North Sea Germanic, also known as Ingvaeonic (/ ˌ ɪ ŋ v iː ˈ...
- Anglo-Frisian Languages
Ingvaeonic, also known as North Sea Germanic, is a...
- Elbe Germanic
Elbe Germanic, also called Irminonic or Erminonic, is a term...
- High German Languages
The High German languages (German: hochdeutsche Mundarten,...
- English Language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European...
- List of Germanic Languages
Each subfamily in this list contains subgroups and...
- North Sea Germanic
The West Germanic languages include the three most widely spoken Germanic languages: English with around 360–400 million native speakers; German, with over 100 million native speakers; and Dutch, with 24 million native speakers.
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- Proto-Germanic
- Indo-EuropeanGermanic
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.
The West Germanic Languages are a branch of Germanic languages first spoken in Central Europe and the British Isles. The branch has three parts: the North Sea Germanic languages, the Weser-Rhine Germanic languages, and the Elbe Germanic languages. The most spoken languages in the branch are English, German, and Dutch.
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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).
