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Within Europe, the three most prevalent West Germanic languages are English, German, and Dutch. Frisian, spoken by about 450,000 people, constitutes a fourth distinct variety of West Germanic. The language family also includes Afrikaans, Yiddish, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, and Scots.
West Germanic languages, group of Germanic languages that developed in the region of the North Sea, Rhine-Weser, and Elbe. Out of the many local West Germanic dialects the following six modern standard languages have arisen: English, Frisian, Dutch (Netherlandic-Flemish), Afrikaans, German, and Yiddish. English
Scholars often divide the Germanic languages into three groups: West Germanic, including English, German, and Netherlandic ( Dutch ); 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.
William G. Moulton Anthony F. Buccini. West Germanic languages - Germanic, Indo-European, Dialects: German is spoken throughout a large area in central Europe, where it is the national language of Germany and of Austria and one of the three official languages of Switzerland (the others are French and Italian, and Romansh has a special status).
The West Germanic languages include the three most widely spoken Germanic languages: English with around 360–400 million native speakers; German, with over 100 million native speakers; and Dutch, with 24 million native speakers.
There are three branches of West Germanic languages: North Sea Germanic / Ingvaeonic languages. Anglo-Frisian languages. English Languages/Anglic. Scots. Yola (extinct) Fingalian (extinct) Frisian languages. West Frisian. East Frisian. North Frisian. Low German / Low Saxon. Northern Low Saxon. Schleswig dialects. Holstein dialects. Westphalian.
T he Continental West-Germanic languages form a subgroup of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken in the area of Northwest Europe defined by the river basins of the Scheldt, the (lower) Meuse, the Rhine, the Ems, the Elbe, the Weser, the Oder, and the upper Danube.
