Germanic languages facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Germanic
Teutonic
Geographic distribution:	Principally northern, western and central Europe, the Americas (Anglo-America, Caribbean Netherlands and Suriname), Southern Africa and Oceania
Linguistic classification:	Indo-European Germanic
Proto-language:	Proto-Germanic
Subdivisions:	North Germanic West Germanic East Germanic (extinct)
ISO 639-2 and 639-5:	gem
World map showing countries where a Germanic language is the primary or official language      Countries where (a) Germanic language(s) is/are the first language(s) of the majority of the population      Countries or regions where (a) Germanic language(s) is/are (an) official but not primary language(s)      Countries or regions where (a) Germanic language(s) is/are (an) unofficial but recognised/used in some areas of life/spoken among a local minority

The Germanic languages are a branch of Indo-European languages. They came from one language, "Proto-Germanic", and were originally spoken in Northern, Western and Central Europe.

The Germanic languages are separated into the East Germanic languages (all extinct), the North Germanic languages and the West Germanic languages.

List of Germanic languages

West Germanic languages

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

North Germanic languages

• Danish
• Faroese
• Icelandic
• Norwegian
• Swedish

East Germanic languages

All of the following are extinct:

• Gothic (with texts)
• Vandalic
• Burgundian
• Crimean Gothic

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  Germanic languages and main dialect groups