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English

West Germanic

name

Meaning

  1. Of or relating to these languages.
  2. The branch of the Germanic language family consisting of English, Frisian languages, Dutch, Afrikaans, Low Saxon languages, German, and Yiddish, and their immediate predecessors.
  3. The presumed unattested ancestor of these languages (more properly called Proto-West Germanic).

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