Family Tree
Note that divisions between subfamilies of Germanic are rarely precisely defined; most form dialect continua, with adjacent dialects being mutually intelligible and more separated ones not.
- Anglo-Frisian
- Anglic
- English
- Scots
- Yola (extinct)
- Fingalian (extinct)
- Frisian languages
- Anglic
- Low German
- Northern Low Saxon
- Low Franconian
- Dutch
- Afrikaans
- High German
- Alemannic
- Austro-Bavarian
- German
- Luxembourgish
- Yiddish
- Vilamovian
Read more about this topic: West Germanic Languages
Famous quotes containing the words family and/or tree:
“Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can’t soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom—it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)