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The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people [nb 1] mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania, and Southern Africa. The most widely spoken Germanic language, English, is also the world's most widely spoken language with an estimated
The Germanic languages include some 58 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects that originated in Europe; this language family is part of the Indo-European language family. Each subfamily in this list contains subgroups and individual languages.
German is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Germanic group of the Germanic languages. The Germanic languages are traditionally subdivided into three branches: North Germanic, East Germanic, and West Germanic.
Today, the Germanic languages are spoken by around 515 million people as a first language. [1] English is the most spoken Germanic language, with 360-400 million native speakers. [2] The Germanic languages are the East Germanic languages (all extinct), the North Germanic languages, and the West Germanic languages.
Germanic languages, branch of the Indo-European language family consisting of the West Germanic, North Germanic, and East Germanic groups.
Like every language spoken over a considerable geographic area, Proto-Germanic presumably consisted of a number of geographic varieties or dialects that over time developed in different ways into the different early and modern Germanic languages.
Approximately 500 million people speak a Germanic language as their native tongue. This article takes a look at the history of this language subdivision, its branches, and the most widely spoken Germanic languages in the world.