Germanic languages

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)

See also

• North Germanic languages
• List of language pairs
• Romance languages
• Translation problems between romance and germanic languages