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  1. Há 3 dias · 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.

  2. Há 6 dias · Linguists postulate that an early Proto-Germanic language existed and was distinguishable from the other Indo-European languages as far back as 500 BCE. [2] From what is known, the early Germanic tribes may have spoken mutually intelligible dialects derived from a common parent language but there are no written records to verify this ...

  3. Há 5 dias · The Indo-European family is divided into several branches or sub-families, of which there are eight groups with languages still alive today: Albanian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic, Celtic, Germanic, Hellenic, Indo-Iranian, and Italic; another nine subdivisions are now extinct .

    • † indicates this branch of the language family is extinct
    • Proto-Indo-European
  4. Há 5 dias · The Germanic tribes emerged as distinct ethnic groups during the Nordic Bronze Age around 1200 BCE. These tribes, including the Goths, Vandals, Saxons, and Franks, were part of the larger Indo-European family of peoples. They spoke various Germanic languages and shared common cultural traits.

  5. Há 5 dias · Old High German, Old English, and Old Norse were among the early Germanic languages that evolved from their dialects. Today, modern German, English, Dutch, Swedish, and Danish are considered direct descendants of the Germanic languages. Migrations and Kingdoms

  6. Há 5 dias · Question 1 of 10. 1. Two languages, A and B, are said to be mutually intelligible if a native speaker of A can understand most of what a native speaker of B says, and vice versa, with no special training outside of their native language. For instance, Spanish and Portuguese are considered to be mutually intelligible, but Italian and German are not.

  7. Há 4 dias · Germany, country of north-central Europe. Although Germany existed as a loose polity of Germanic-speaking peoples for millennia, a united German nation in roughly its present form dates only to 1871. Modern Germany is a liberal democracy that has become ever more integrated with and central to a united Europe.