Germanic Languages
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa. The most widely spoken Germanic language, English, is the world's most widely spoken language with an estimated 2 billion speakers. All Germanic languages are derived from Proto-Germanic, spoken in Iron Age Scandinavia. The West Germanic languages include the three most widely spoken Germanic languages: English with around 360–400 million native speakers; German, with over 100 million native speakers; and Dutch, with 24 million native speakers. Other West Germanic languages include …
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Stellascope Ltd. · 4 January 1981 English
national elements, which is fairly easv Germanic languages or in Arabic, and not too difficult in …
Laws.Africa · 21 March 1974 English
Teaching, Linguis- tics with reference to Germanic Languages, German Literature from the 18th to the 20th …
University of the Witwatersrand English
modern language (the most modern of the Germanic languages), which has developed directly from seventeenth …
UIUC: University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
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