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  1. Vor 3 Tagen · 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.

  2. Vor 2 Tagen · English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.

  3. Vor 6 Tagen · By 500 CE, the West Germanic speakers had apparently developed a distinct language continuum with extensive loaning from Latin (due to their ongoing contact with the Romans), whereas the East Germanic languages were dying out.

  4. For example, the western Romance languages, North Germanic and South Slavic languages are well known examples of dialect clusters, while being composed of many different identities. Many of these languages (if not most) are far more closely related to one another than Dutch and German are. In some cases (such as that of Serbo-Croatian) the ...

  5. Vor 5 Tagen · English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark, and the Netherlands. Over time, English developed its own distinct characteristics and evolved separately from the German language.

  6. Vor 15 Stunden · Scots, a West Germanic language, has a literature going back over 800 years, yet only English is compulsory in schools, and there are still teachers and others with no knowledge of linguistic­s who say the Scots language is just ‘Slang’. They’re wrong. If you speak a smaller language there is always another voice shouting louder than ...

  7. Belgium has three official languages, Dutch, French and German, but the country itself is neither bilingual nor trilingual. Nor can you officially be addressed in English. The official language of the Flemish Region is Dutch, while the institutions in the Walloon Region (minus the German-speaking Community) speak French.