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.

## Contents

* 1 List of Germanic languages
* 1.1 West Germanic languages
* 1.2 North Germanic languages
* 1.3 East Germanic languages
* 2 See also

## 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