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1 day ago · Low German is a West Germanic language spoken mainly in Northern Germany and the northeastern Netherlands. The dialect of Plautdietsch is also spoken in the Russian Mennonite diaspora worldwide. Low German is most closely related to Frisian and English, with which it forms the North Sea Germanic group of the
- Estimated 4.35–7.15 million, Up to 10 million second-language speakers (2001)
Both are part of the continental West Germanic area, the bulk of which became the German nation. There is no clear linguistic border between the Dutch and the Germans, just like there isn't between the Germans from Germany proper and the Swiss Germans, it's just one big dialect continuum, so an ethnic identity based on language can't explain it
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6 days ago · Old Norse was divided into three dialects: Old West Norse or Old West Nordic (often referred to as Old Norse), Old East Norse or Old East Nordic, and Old Gutnish. Old West Norse and Old East Norse formed a dialect continuum, with no clear geographical boundary between them.
- Norsemen and their descendants
2 days ago · Afrikaans is a West Germanic language derived from the 17th-century Dutch. It is spoken in South Africa, Namibia Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe with the highest predominance in South Africa. Although English is also a West Germanic language, it has a completely different origin and linguistic nuances. Thus, translating between Afrikaans and ...
1 day ago · 1500–2000: Early Modern period to present: Colonialism results in the spread of Indo-European languages to every habitable continent, most notably Romance (North, Central and South America, North and Sub-Saharan Africa, West Asia), West Germanic (English in North America, Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia and Australia; to a lesser extent Dutch ...
- † indicates this branch of the language family is extinct
- Proto-Indo-European
- One of the world's primary language families
4 days ago · noun. the standard German language; developed historically from West Germanic. synonyms: German, High German. see more.
3 days ago · The branches of Germanic We may hypothesize that as a result of this expansion of the Germanic-speaking peoples, “differences of dialect within Proto-Germanic became more marked, and we usually distinguish three main branches or groups of dialects, namely North Germanic, East Germanic and West Germanic” (Algeo, 2010).
