Home›Eurasian Language Families›Macro-area›Indo-European Branches›Indo-European: Germanic Branch›All Indo-European: Germanic BranchBrowse ByAll Indo-European: Germanic BranchFactsAll Indo-European: Germanic BranchSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEstimated Living LanguagesWell-attested48 1All Indo-European: Germanic BranchFilter Results21 entriesParent Family (Classification Tree)AllAnatolian (1)Anglic (1)Anglo-Frisian languages (3)Balto-Slavic (1)Celtic (2)Franconian (1)Frisian (1)Germanic (2)Graeco-Phrygian languages (1)Hellenic (1)Indo-Iranian (1)Italic (1)North Germanic (1)West Germanic (3)RegionAllAround the Weser and Rhine rivers (1)Friesland and Groningen, Netherlands (1)German-speaking Europe (1)Northern Europe (1)Northern, Western and Central Europe (Pre-colonial) (1)Speaker Count BandAll0.000000 (1)400000.000000 (1)500000.000000 (1)20000000.000000 (1)515000000.000000 (1)1000000000.000000 (1)3238000000.000000 (1)In GroupAllIndo-European: Germanic Branch (21)BrowseCompareSelect all 21AnglicEurasian Language FamiliesAnglo-Frisian languagesEurasian Language FamiliesBrittonicEurasian Language FamiliesCentral GermanEurasian Language FamiliesDutch Low SaxonEurasian Language FamiliesEast GermanicEurasian Language FamiliesElbe GermanicEurasian Language FamiliesFranconianEurasian Language FamiliesFrisianEurasian Language FamiliesGermanicEurasian Language FamiliesHigh GermanEurasian Language FamiliesIndo-EuropeanEurasian Language FamiliesLow FranconianEurasian Language FamiliesNorth GermanicEurasian Language FamiliesNorth Sea GermanicEurasian Language FamiliesNorthwest GermanicEurasian Language FamiliesWeser-Rhine GermanicEurasian Language FamiliesWest Central GermanEurasian Language FamiliesWest Frisian languagesEurasian Language FamiliesWest GermanicEurasian Language FamiliesWestern 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.