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4 days ago · 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.
- Germany
German is the most widely spoken first language in the...
- Standard German phonology
The phonology of Standard German is the standard...
- English Language
English is classified as a Germanic language because it...
- Proto-Germanic language
Proto-Germanic (abbreviated PGmc; also called Common...
- Germany
3 days ago · Die deutsche Sprache bzw. Deutsch [ dɔɪ̯tʃ] [25] ist eine westgermanische Sprache, die weltweit etwa 90 bis 105 Millionen Menschen als Muttersprache und weiteren rund 80 Millionen als Zweit- oder Fremdsprache dient. Das Deutsche ist eine plurizentrische Sprache, enthält also mehrere Standardvarietäten in verschiedenen Regionen.
3 days ago · German language, official language of both Germany and Austria and one of the official languages of Switzerland. German belongs to the West Germanic group of the Indo-European language family, along with English, Frisian, and Dutch (Netherlandic, Flemish). Learn more about the German language.
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