Difference between revisions of "Germanic languages"

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* [[Icelandic]] and [[Faroese]]
 
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* [[Swedish]], [[Danish]], [[ Norwegian (Bokmål)]], [[Norwegian (Nynorsk)]]
 
* [[Swedish]], [[Danish]], [[ Norwegian (Bokmål)]], [[Norwegian (Nynorsk)]]
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Revision as of 20:49, 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:

Germanic-Germanic pairs

de l nd nl af fy is fo sv da no
de cell2 cell3 cell4 cell5 cell6 cell7 cell8 cell9 cell10 cell11 cell12
l cell14 cell15 cell16 cell17 cell18 cell19 cell20 cell21 cell22 cell23 cell24
nd cell25 cell26 cell27 cell28 cell29 cell30 cell31 cell32 cell33 cell34 cell35
nl cell36 cell37 cell38 cell39 cell40 cell41 cell42 cell43 cell44 cell45 cell46
af cell47 cell48 cell49 cell50 cell51 cell52 cell53 cell54 cell55 cell56 cell57
fy cell58 cell59 cell60 cell61 cell62 cell63 cell64 cell65 cell66 cell67 cell68
is cell69 cell70 cell71 cell72 cell73 cell74 cell75 cell76 cell77 cell78 cell79
fo cell80 cell81 cell82 cell83 cell84 cell85 cell86 cell87 cell88 cell89 cell90
sv cell91 cell92 cell93 cell94 cell95 cell96 cell97 cell98 cell99 cell100 cell101
da cell102 cell103 cell104 cell105 cell106 cell107 cell108 cell109 cell110 cell111 cell112
no cell113 cell114 cell115 cell116 cell117 cell118 cell119 cell120 cell121 cell122 cell123

See also