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Germanic languages by subgroup:
Germanic languages by subgroup:

* West-Germanic Languages
* West-Germanic Languages
*[[German]] - [[Dutch]]
*[[German]] - [[Dutch]]
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*[[Frisian]]
*[[Frisian]]
*[[English]]
*[[English]]

* North-Germanic Languages
* North-Germanic Languages
*[[Scandinavian]]
*[[Scandinavian]]
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Revision as of 20:05, 25 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.

Germanic languages by subgroup:

  • West-Germanic Languages
 *German - Dutch
    *German
       *German
       *Yiddish
       *Luxemburgish
       *Pennsylvania Dutch
    *Low German
       *Low German
       *Plautdietsch
    *Dutch
       *Dutch
       *Afrikaans
 *Anglo - Frisian
    *Frisian
    *English
  • North-Germanic Languages
 *Scandinavian
   *Danish
   *Swedish
   *Norwegian
 *Icelandic - Faroese
   *Icelandic
   *Faroese

Language pairs:

Some Germanic languages that are particularly similar to one another (and hence have high levels of mutual intelligibility) include those in the following list:

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See also