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2 days ago · Gothic is an extinct East Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths. It is known primarily from the Codex Argenteus, a 6th-century copy of a 4th-century Bible translation, and is the only East Germanic language with a sizeable text corpus.
5 days ago · The early Germanic peoples, whose presence and movements have been documented from the 2nd century BC through late antiquity, played a pivotal role in shaping the historical and cultural landscape of Europe.
3 days ago · A Western Aramaic dialect is still spoken in the vicinity of Maʿlūlā, Syria, and Eastern Aramaic survives in the form of Ṭuroyo (native to an area in eastern Turkey ), Modern Mandaic (in western Iran ), and the Neo- Syriac or Assyrian dialects (in Iraq, Turkey, and Iran).
2 days ago · The language spoken by Luxembourg’s native inhabitants is Luxembourgish, or Lëtzebuergesch, a Moselle-Franconian dialect of German that has been enriched by many French words and phrases. Luxembourgish is the national language; German and French are both languages of administration.
3 days ago · Today, the individual Indo-European languages with the most native speakers are English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Hindustani, Bengali, Punjabi, French and German each with over 100 million native speakers; many others are small and in danger of extinction.
- † indicates this branch of the language family is extinct
- Proto-Indo-European
- One of the world's primary language families
1 day ago · Eastern Yiddish differs from Western both by its far greater size and by the extensive inclusion of words of Slavic origin. Western Yiddish is divided into Southwestern (Swiss–Alsatian–Southern German), Midwestern (Central German), and Northwestern (Netherlandic–Northern German) dialects.
3 days ago · Yes, English is a Germanic language. It belongs to the West Germanic branch of the Germanic language family. Why is English so Germanic? English has Germanic influences because it evolved from Old English, which was a Germanic language spoken by the Anglo-Saxons.
