GERMANIC LANGUAGES
Present and earlier forms of German, English, Dutch-Flemish, Afrikaans,
Yiddish, Frisian, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, and Faeroese belong
to the family of languages called Germanic. These languages are a branch of
the Indo-European language family. Of these, English has the largest number of
speakers, considerably more than 300 million.
For some language families there are written records of the parent
language. The Romance languages, for example, are derived from Latin. But in
the case of the Germanic family, there are no records of the parent language,
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