Germanic philology is the philological study of the Germanic languages, particularly from a comparative or historical perspective. [1] The beginnings of research into the Germanic languages began in the 16th century, with the discovery of literary texts in …

The Germanic languages make up the predominant language family in Western, Northern and Central Europe.An estimated 210 million Europeans are native speakers of Germanic languages, the largest groups being German (c. 95 million), English (c. 70 million), Dutch (c. 24 million), Swedish (c. 10 million), Danish (c. 6 million), and Norwegian (c. 5 million).. There are two extant …

May 19, 2022 · The Germanic branch is one of the ten or so Indo-European subfamilies. Germanic languages are English’s distant cousins, so to speak. The Germanic family itself has subgroups; English is in the West Germanic branch along with German, Dutch, Afrikaans, and a few others. What makes English like the other languages in its subfamily?

Germanic: [noun] a branch of the Indo-European language family containing English, German, Dutch, Afrikaans, Frisian, the Scandinavian languages, and Gothic — see Indo-European Languages Table.

Jun 27, 2022 · Proto-West Germanic: *wōd. Old English: wōd. Middle English: wod, wode; Old Saxon: *wōd. Middle Low German: wôt. ... In other languages. This page was last edited on 27 June 2022, at 17:15. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.

English is a language that started in Anglo-Saxon England.It is originally from Anglo-Frisian and Old Saxon dialects.English is now used as a global language. There are about 375 million native speakers (people who use it as their first language) in the world.. Frisian is the language closest to English. The vocabulary of English was influenced by other Germanic languages in the early …