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
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The minute it was left with me alone,
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