West Germanic

== English == === Proper noun === West Germanic (linguistics) The branch of the Germanic language family consisting of English, Frisian languages, Dutch, Afrikaans, Low Saxon languages, German, and Yiddish, and their immediate predecessors. The presumed unattested ancestor of these languages (more properly called Proto-West Germanic). Synonym: Proto-West Germanic p. 1993, a. 2002, in Donald McLean Lamberton (editor), The Economics of Language,[2] Edward Elgar Publishing (2002), →ISBN, page 93: The next logical step is to note that the Scandinavian languages, descended from a North Germanic parent, are more distant historically from English than are Dutch and German, which, like English, are descended from West Germanic. ==== Translations ==== === Adjective === West Germanic Of or relating to these languages. ==== Related terms ==== North Germanic East Germanic ==== Translations ====