Home›Eurasian Language Families›Indo-European Branches›Indo-European: Germanic BranchGroupIndo-European: Germanic BranchThe 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.FactsBrowse BySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEstimated Living LanguagesWell-attested48 1Browse ByAll Indo-European: Germanic BranchIndo-European: Germanic Branch21 entriesIndo-European: Germanic BranchFilter Results21 entriesMacro-areaAllIndo-European Branches (21)Indo-European: Germanic Branch (21)Parent Family (Classification Tree)AllAnglo-Frisian languages (2)Celtic (1)Germanic (2)West Germanic (2)Speaker Count BandAll0 (1)24,600 to 795,000 (2)798,400 to 3,238,000,000 (4)RegionAllAfrica (5)Asia (3)Austria (1)Belgium (1)Central Asia (1)Central Europe (2)Eastern Europe (1)England (1)Europe (16)France (1)Franconia (1)Frisia (1)Germany (4)Ireland (1)Italy (1)Lorraine (1)Netherlands (1)North Africa (1)North America (2)Northern Europe (1)Oceania (1)Scandinavia (1)Scotland (1)South America (3)Southern Africa (1)Switzerland (1)The Low Countries (1)The North Sea Region (1)United Kingdom (1)Westphalia (1)Reconstructed AncestorAllReconstructed (5)Classification StatusAllEstablished (14)Number of LanguagesAll2 (1)16 to 1,408 (7)3 to 5 (1)6 to 15 (5)In GroupAllIndo-European: Germanic Branch (21)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 21AnglicEurasian Language Families1 linkAnglo-Frisian languagesEurasian Language Families3 linksBrittonicEurasian Language Families1 linkCentral GermanEurasian Language FamiliesDutch Low SaxonEurasian Language FamiliesEast GermanicEurasian Language FamiliesElbe GermanicEurasian Language FamiliesFranconianEurasian Language Families1 linkFrisianEurasian Language Families1 linkGermanicEurasian Language Families14 linksHigh GermanEurasian Language FamiliesIndo-EuropeanEurasian Language Families50 linksLow FranconianEurasian Language FamiliesNorth GermanicEurasian Language Families2 linksNorth Sea GermanicEurasian Language FamiliesNorthwest GermanicEurasian Language FamiliesWeser-Rhine GermanicEurasian Language FamiliesWest Central GermanEurasian Language Families1 linkWest Frisian languagesEurasian Language FamiliesWest GermanicEurasian Language Families4 linksWestern Brittonic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesSources1. Wikipedia: Germanic Languagestier 2Wikimedia FoundationBody, SIL Ethnologue language-count sentenceQuote, Body, SIL Ethnologue language-count sentenceThe 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.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.