The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people 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
Portanto, a evidência histórica e textual indica que os povos mais antigos falantes de línguas germânicas estavam distribuídos entre a zona setentrional da atual Alemanha e o sul da Escandinávia. Abaixo podemos relacionar as línguas germânicas e as datas de seus primeiros registros: Rúnico antigo – 200-600 d.C.
The Germanic languages include some 58 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects that originated in Europe; this language family is part of the Indo-European language family. Each subfamily in this list contains subgroups and individual languages.
German is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Germanic group of the Germanic languages. The Germanic languages are traditionally subdivided into three branches: North Germanic , East Germanic , and West Germanic .
The Germanic languages are a group of Indo-European languages. They came from one language, Proto-Germanic, which was first spoken in Scandinavia in the Iron Age. Today, the Germanic languages are spoken by around 515 million people as a first language. English is the most spoken Germanic language, with 360-400 million native speakers.
As línguas germânicas ocidentais constituem o maior dos três ramos em que tradicionalmente se divide a família linguística germânica, juntamente com as línguas germânicas orientais e setentrionais, e inclui idiomas como o inglês, o alemão o holandês, o africâner, o frísio e o iídiche .
The North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages —a sub-family of the Indo-European languages —along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages. The language group is also referred to as the Nordic languages, a direct translation of the most common term used among Danish ...