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2 giorni fa · 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.
4 giorni fa · For example, what makes the Germanic languages a branch of Indo-European is that much of their structure and phonology can be stated in rules that apply to all of them. Many of their common features are presumed innovations that took place in Proto-Germanic, the source of all the Germanic languages.
1 giorno fa · Low German is most closely related to Frisian and English, with which it forms the North Sea Germanic group of the West Germanic languages. Like Dutch , it has historically been spoken north of the Benrath and Uerdingen isoglosses , while forms of High German (of which Standard German is a standardized example) have historically been ...
4 giorni fa · Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlements and chronologically coincides with the Viking Age , the Christianization of Scandinavia and the ...
5 mag 2024 · The Germanic Languages. Routledge, London/New York 1994, ISBN 0-415-05768-X. Orrin W. Robinson: Old English and Its Closest Relatives. A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages. Stanford University Press, Stanford (CA) 1992, ISBN 0-8047-1454-1. Etymologische Wörterbücher. Friedrich Kluge: Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache.
5 mag 2024 · Gothic is an extinct East Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths. It is known primarily from the Codex Argenteus, a 6th-century copy of a 4th-century Bible translation, and is the only East Germanic language with a sizeable text corpus.
2 giorni fa · German language | Origin, History, Characteristics, & Facts | Britannica. Home Geography & Travel Languages. German language. Also known as: Deutsch. Written and fact-checked by. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
