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West Germanic languages - Yiddish, Dutch, German: Although there were some 11 million speakers of Yiddish before World War II, approximately half of them were killed in the Nazi Holocaust. There are several million Yiddish speakers today, including native speakers and those who use it as a second language. Most speakers live in the United States and Israel. They are served by literary journals ...
Chloe is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Carleton College, MN. Congratulations to Jutta Schmiers-Heller, our Director of the German Language Program, who received a Columbia Humanities Award for Community Building and Engagement in the inaugural 2024 competition. Exciting and much deserved!
Apr 19, 2024 · English language, a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family that is closely related to the Frisian, German, and Dutch languages. It originated in England and is the dominant language of the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. It has become the world’s lingua franca.
May 21, 2018 · Germanic. Ger·man·ic / jərˈmanik / • adj. 1. of, relating to, or denoting the branch of the Indo-European language family that includes English, German, Dutch, Frisian, the Scandinavian languages, and Gothic. ∎ of, relating to, or denoting the peoples of ancient northern and western Europe speaking such languages. 2.
The first Pan-Germanic language, later reformed under names like nu teutonish, alteutonik, etc. Romanid: 1956 Zoltán Magyar: A zonal auxiliary language based on the Romance languages. Guosa: 1965 Alexander Igbinéwéká: A zonal auxiliary language for West Africa derived primarily from Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo. Afrihili: afh 1970 K. A. Kumi ...
The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Aramaic, Hebrew, and numerous other ancient and modern languages. They are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of West Asia, North Africa, [a] the Horn of Africa, [b] [c] Malta, [d] and in large immigrant and expatriate ...
A number of Germanic gods are mentioned in Old Norse literature and they are divided into the Æsir and the Vanir. The Æsir are primarily gods of war and dominate the latter, who are gods of fertility and wealth. [1] The chief god of the Æsir is Odin, a god associated with war, seiðr (witchcraft), and wisdom. He was probably worshipped ...
