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
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“For most women who are considering it, single motherhood is not their first choice, but it’s not their last one either. They would prefer a husband in their family, but they’d rather have a family without one than no family at all.”
—Anne Cassidy. “Every Child Should Have a Father But....,” McCall’s (March 1985)
“The windy springs and the blazing summers, one after another, had enriched and mellowed that flat tableland; all the human effort that had gone into it was coming back in long, sweeping lines of fertility. The changes seemed beautiful and harmonious to me; it was like watching the growth of a great man or of a great idea. I recognized every tree and sandbank and rugged draw. I found that I remembered the conformation of the land as one remembers the modelling of human faces.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)