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'''Germanic languages''' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_languages) are a branch of the |
'''Germanic languages''' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_languages) are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken by a sizable population in Western Europe, North America and Australasia.The common ancestor of all the languages is called Proto-Germanic, which was spoken approximately in the mid-1st millenium BC in Iron Age northern Europe.The Germanic languages include [[English]], [[German]], [[Dutch]], [[Afrikaans]], [[Norwegian]], [[Danish]], [[Swedish]], [[Icelandic]] and [[Faroese]]. |
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Revision as of 20:59, 22 November 2013
Germanic languages (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_languages) are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken by a sizable population in Western Europe, North America and Australasia.The common ancestor of all the languages is called Proto-Germanic, which was spoken approximately in the mid-1st millenium BC in Iron Age northern Europe.The Germanic languages include English, German, Dutch, Afrikaans, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic and Faroese.
Major languages:
- Afrikaans (af)
- Danish (da)
- Dutch (nl)
- English (en)
- Faroese (fo)
- German (de)
- Icelandic (is)
- Norwegian (no)
- Norwegian Bokmål (nb) (see also Norwegian Nynorsk and Norwegian Bokmål)
- Norwegian Nynorsk (nn) (see also Norwegian Nynorsk and Norwegian Bokmål)
- Swedish (sv)
Language pairs:
- German and Luxemburgish
- Low German, Dutch, Afrikaans and West Frisian
- Icelandic and Faroese
- Swedish, Danish, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk)
