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:

Germanic-Germanic pairs

de l nd nl af fy is fo sv da no
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 -

See also