Germanic Languages, subfamily of the Indo-European
languages. Germanic languages are spoken by more than 480 million
people in northern and western Europe, North America, South Africa,
and Australia. In their structure and evolution they fall into three
branches:
- East Germanic (extinct): the Gothic language and some other
extinct languages. Substantial information survives only for Gothic.
- North Germanic or Scandinavian: western group - the Icelandic
language, the Norwegian language, and Faroese; eastern group -
the Danish language and the Swedish language.
- West Germanic: Anglo-Frisian group - the English language and
the Frisian language; Netherlandic-German group - Netherlandic,
or Dutch-Flemish and the Low German dialects, Afrikaans, the German
language or High German, and the Yiddish language.
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