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  1. All Germanic languages are derived from Proto-Germanic, spoken in Iron Age Scandinavia and Germany. 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

  2. Feb 21, 2020 · Which languages belong to the Germanic language family, and how similar are they today? One of Babbel's experts breaks it down.

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  3. Germanic languages, branch of the Indo-European language family. Scholars often divide the Germanic languages into three groups: West Germanic , including English , German , and Netherlandic ( Dutch ); North Germanic, including Danish , Swedish , Icelandic , Norwegian , and Faroese ; and East Germanic , now extinct, comprising only Gothic and ...

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  5. The Germanic languages include some 58 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects that originated in Europe; this language family is part of the Indo-European language family. Each subfamily in this list contains subgroups and individual languages.

  6. List of all Germanic languages. The Germanic languages are divided into three branches; East Germanic languages, West Germanic languages and North Germanic languages. Let’s take a look at the full list of Germanic languages, as well as how many native speakers there are in each group. East Germanic languages.

  7. Sep 21, 2023 · The West Germanic language branch is the largest of the three since it includes the three most widely spoken Germanic languages: English, German, and Dutch. West Germanic languages are spoken by about 500 million people natively. The West Germanic language branch includes: English. German. Frisian. Dutch. Scots. Afrikaans. Yiddish. East Germanic.

  8. This book presents a comparative linguistic survey of the full range of Germanic languages, both ancient and modern, including major world languages such as English and German (West Germanic), the Scandi-navian (North Germanic) languages, and the extinct East Germanic lan-guages.

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