Germanic Languages

Germanic languages is a language family, and is part of the larger language family known as Indo-European languages. Germanic includes the following languages: English, Scots, German, Dutch, Frisian, Afrikaans, Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian.

List of Germanic languages[edit]

West Germanic languages[edit]

• English
• Scots
• German
• Frisian
• Dutch
• Afrikaans
• Yiddish

North Germanic languages[edit]

The North Germanic languages all descend from Old Norse which was the language used by the Vikings.

• Danish
• Faroese
• Icelandic
• Norwegian
• Swedish

East Germanic languages[edit]

(All of which are extinct.)

• Gothic

See also[edit]

• Indo-European languages