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Within Europe, the three most prevalent West Germanic languages are English, German, and Dutch. Frisian, spoken by about 450,000 people, constitutes a fourth distinct variety of West Germanic. The language family also includes Afrikaans, Yiddish, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, and Scots. Additionally, several creoles, patois, and pidgins are based ...
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, group of Germanic languages that developed in the region of the North Sea, Rhine-Weser, and Elbe. Out of the many local West Germanic dialects the following six modern standard languages have arisen: English, Frisian, Dutch ( Netherlandic -Flemish), Afrikaans, German, and Yiddish.
Westgermanische Sprachen. Westgermanische Sprachen sind eine Untergruppe der germanischen Sprachen, welche unter anderem Englisch, Hochdeutsch, Niederländisch, Afrikaans, Niederdeutsch, Friesisch und Jiddisch umfasst. Eine ausführliche Liste der Einzelsprachen findet sich am Ende dieses Artikels .
The Germanic Languages. Routledge, London/New York 1994, ISBN 0-415-05768-X. Orrin W. Robinson: Old English and Its Closest Relatives. A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages. Stanford University Press, Stanford (CA) 1992, ISBN 0-8047-1454-1. Etymologische Wörterbücher. Friedrich Kluge: Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache.
German ( Standard High German: Deutsch, pronounced [dɔʏtʃ] ⓘ) [10] is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol. It is also an official language of Luxembourg ...
East Germanic languages; North Germanic languages; West Germanic languages; They all descend from Proto-Germanic, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European. South Germanic languages, an attempt to classify some of the West Germanic languages into a separate group, is rejected by the overwhelming majority of scholars. † denotes extinct languages.
