Germanic languages
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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:
- German and Luxemburgish
- Low German, Dutch, Afrikaans and West Frisian
- Icelandic and Faroese
- Swedish, Danish, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk)
Germanic-Germanic pairs
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| de | - | de-l | |||||||||
| l | l-de | - | |||||||||
| nd | - | nd-nl | nd-af | nd-fy | |||||||
| nl | nl-nd | - | nl-af | nl-fy | |||||||
| af | af-nd | af-nl | - | af-fy | |||||||
| fy | fy-nd | fy-nl | fy-af | - | |||||||
| is | - | is-fo | |||||||||
| fo | fo-is | - | |||||||||
| sv | - | sv-da | sv-no | ||||||||
| da | da-sv | - | da-no | ||||||||
| no | no-sv | no-da | - |
