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11 de abr. de 2019 · The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people [nb 1] mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa. The most widely spoken Germanic language, English, is also the world's most widely spoken language with an estimated 2 billion speakers.
Germanic languages, branch of the Indo-European language family. Scholars often divide the Germanic languages into three groups: West Germanic, including English, German, and Netherlandic (); North Germanic, including Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Faroese; and East Germanic, now extinct, comprising only Gothic and the languages of the Vandals, Burgundians, and a few other tribes.
7 de mar. de 2023 · Linguistics document from Madera South High, 10 pages, 3/7/23, 9:41 PM West Germanic languages - Wikipedia West Germanic languages The West Germanic languages constitute the largest of the three branches of the Germanic family of languages (the others being the North Germanic and the extinct East Germanic lan
Yiddish is a language used by some Jews. At first, it was a dialect of German that Jews began to use in Europe about 1000 years ago. It was and still is used in the United States, especially in New York City, and other countries that now have Jews. Most Yiddish words come from German, but many words are also from Hebrew and Slavic languages ...
All three languages are used in the country’s schools. This article was most recently revised and updated by Heather Campbell. West Germanic languages - Yiddish, Dutch, German: Although there were some 11 million speakers of Yiddish before World War II, approximately half of them were killed in the Nazi Holocaust.
English is an Indo-European language and belongs to the West Germanic group of the Germanic languages. Old English originated from a Germanic tribal and linguistic continuum along the Frisian North Sea coast, whose languages gradually evolved into the Anglic languages in the British Isles , and into the Frisian languages and Low German /Low Saxon on the continent.
15 de dic. de 2015 · Finally, it should be emphasized that as a typological feature dividing North Germanic from West Germanic the VO vs. OV divide fails, as is well known. North Germanic languages are not uniformly VO; even abstracting away from Object Shift (see Holmberg Reference Holmberg 1986 ), modern Icelandic permits OV with negative and quantified objects (Hróarsdóttir Reference Hróarsdóttir 2000 :56f.).
