The Germanic branch of Indo-European includes English, German, Dutch and the Scandinavian languages, along with the extinct East Germanic languages such as Gothic, and is conventionally divided into North Germanic, the Scandinavian languages, West Germanic, English, German, Dutch, Frisian and their relatives, and the extinct East Germanic branch. This child group, under Indo-European Branches, holds every Eurasian Language Families member whose sourced description identifies it as Germanic or as a named branch or sub-branch within Germanic: North, West, East, Anglo-Frisian, Low and High German among them.
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Estimated Living Languages Indo-European: Germanic Branch
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1. Wikipedia: Germanic Languages
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The SIL Ethnologue lists 48 different living Germanic languages, 41 of which belong to the Western branch and six to the Northern branch; it places Riograndenser Hunsrückisch German in neither of the categories, but it is often considered a German dialect by linguists.
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