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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...
- West Germanic Languages
English is the most spoken Germanic language, with 360-400 million native speakers. The Germanic languages are the East Germanic languages (all extinct), the North Germanic languages, and the West Germanic languages. When Proto-Germanic split from Proto-Indo-European, one of the main changes in the sounds in the language was Grimm’s law.
Las lenguas germánicas son un subgrupo de la familia de lenguas indoeuropeas habladas principalmente por los pueblos germánicos. Todas derivan de un antecesor común, tradicionalmente denominado idioma protogermánico.
Elfdalian or Övdalian ( övdalsk or övdalską, pronounced [ˈœvdɐlskãː] in Elfdalian, älvdalska or älvdalsmål in Swedish) is a North Germanic language spoken by up to 3,000 people [4] who live or have grown up in the locality of Älvdalen ( Övdaln ), which is located in the southeastern part of Älvdalen Municipality in northern Dalarna, Sweden .
Feb 21, 2020 · Around 515 million people speak a Germanic language natively, with English accounting for around 360 million speakers. (The next biggest language of the group is German with approximately 76 million native speakers.)
