List Of Germanic Languages
The Germanic languages include some 58 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects that originated in Europe; this language family is a part of the Indo-European language family. Each subfamily in this list contains subgroups and individual languages.
The standard division of Germanic is into three branches,
- East Germanic languages
- North Germanic languages
- West Germanic languages
The all descend from Proto-Germanic, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
† denotes extinct languages.
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