West Germanic Languages - Family Tree

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
  • Low German
    • Northern Low Saxon
  • Low Franconian
    • Dutch
    • Afrikaans
  • High German
    • Alemannic
    • Austro-Bavarian
    • German
    • Luxembourgish
    • Yiddish
    • Vilamovian

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