1 The Germanic Languages -

The Germanic language family is a group of related languages descended from a single ancestor known as . This family is primarily divided into three main branches: West, North, and East (now extinct). 1. Classification of Germanic Languages

Germanic languages share unique linguistic features that set them apart from other Indo-European branches: 1 The Germanic Languages

: A system that divides verbs into those that change their internal vowel to show tense (like sing/sang ) and those that add a suffix (like walk/walked ). The Germanic language family is a group of

: Often referred to as the Scandinavian or "Nordic" languages, this branch includes Swedish , Norwegian , Danish , Icelandic , and Faroese, spoken by roughly 20 million people natively. this branch includes Swedish