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West Germanic languages From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia This article includes a list of references but its sources remain unclear because it has insu ?cient inline citations Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations October Learn how and when to remove this template message West Germanic Ethnicity West Germanic peoples Geographic distribution Originally between the Rhine Alps Elbe and North Sea today worldwide Linguistic classi ?cation Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Subdivisions North Sea Germanic English Scots Frisian Low German Weser-Rhine Germanic German Franconian Dutch Afrikaans Elbe Germanic German Alemannic Bavarian Luxembourgish Hunsrik Yiddish ISO - gmw Linguasphere -AB -AC Glottolog west The West Germanic languages constitute the largest of the three branches of the Germanic family of languages the others being the North Germanic and the extinct East Germanic languages The four most prevalent West Germanic languages are Afrikaans English German and Dutch The family also includes other High and Low German languages including Yiddish in addition to other Franconian languages like Luxembourgish and Ingvaeonic languages next to English such as the Frisian languages and Scots Additionally several creoles patois and pidgins are based on Dutch and English as they were languages of colonial empires Contents hide History Origins Existence of a West Germanic proto-language The reconstruction of Proto-West-Germanic Dating Early West Germanic Middle Ages Family tree Comparison of phonological and morphological features Phonology West Germanic vocabulary Notes References Bibliography External links History edit The Germanic languages in Europe North Germanic languages Icelandic Faroese Norwegian Swedish Danish West Germanic languages CScots English Frisian Dutch Low German German Dots indicate areas where multilingualism is common Origins edit The West Germanic languages share many lexemes not existing in North Germanic and or East Germanic archaisms as well as common neologisms Existence of a West Germanic proto-language edit Most scholars doubt that there was a Proto- West-Germanic proto-language common to the West Germanic languages and no others though a few maintain that Proto-WestGermanic existed Most agree that after East Germanic broke o ? an event usually dated to the nd or st century BC the remaining Germanic languages the Northwest Germanic languages divided into four main dialects North Germanic and the three groups conventionally called West Germanic namely North Sea Germanic Ingvaeonic ancestral to Anglo-Frisian and also Old Saxon Weser- Rhine Germanic Istvaeonic ancestral to Old Frankish its successors Low Franconian and several dialects of Old High German Elbe Germanic Irminonic ancestral to several dialects of Old High German most probably including the extinct Langobardic language Although there is quite a bit of knowledge about North Sea Germanic or AngloFrisian due to characteristic features of its daughter languages Anglo-Saxon Old English and Old Frisian linguists know almost nothing about Weser-Rhine Germanic and Elbe Germanic In fact these two terms were coined in the s to refer to groups of archaeological ?ndings rather than linguistic features Only later were these terms applied to hypothetical dialectal di ?erences within both regions Even today the very small number of Migration Period runic