MODERN GERMANIC LANGUAGES

AND THEIR SPREADING ON THE

GLOBE.

470 million people

50 germanic languages
Europe and the western Hemisphere

Afrikaans

South Africa (along with 11 other languages)

Danish

Denmark, Faroe Islands, Greenland

Dutch

Netherlands (with Frisian), Belgium (with French and German), Suriname,

Netherland Antilles, Aruba

English

UK and British Commonwelth Countries, Us and its territories, others

countries (total 53)

Frisian

Netherlands (with Dutch)

German

Austria, Belgium (with Dutch and French), Germany, Liechtenstein,

Luxembourg (with French and Luxembourgish), South Tyrol (with Italian),
Switzerland (with French, Italian and Rhaeto-Romansch)

Norwegian

Norway

Swedish

Sweden, Finland (with Finnish)

English

hello

good bye

please

thank you

yes/no

Afrikaans

hallo

totsiens

asseblief

dankie

ja/nee

Dutch

hallo

tot ziens

alstublieft

dankjewe

ja/nee

Danish

hej

farvel

behage

tak

ja/nej

German

hallo

auf Wiedersehen bitte

danke

ja/nein

Icelandic

gan dag

bless

gjru svo vel

takk fyrir

/nei

Norwegian

hallo

farvel

vr s snill

takk

ja/nei

Swedish

hej

hej d

behaga

tack

ja/nej

Yiddish

gut-morgn

a gutn tog

zay azoy gut

A dank

ye/neyn

English

one

two

Afrikaans

een

Dutch

three four

five

six

seven eight nine

ten

twee

drie

vier

vyf

ses

sewe

tien

een

twee

drie

vier

vijf

zes

zeven acht

negen tien

Danish

en

to

tre

fire

fem

seks

syv

ni

ti

German

eins

zwei

drei

vier

fnf

sechs sieben acht

neun

zehn

Icelandic

einn

tveir

rir

fjrir

fimm

sex

sjo

tta

nu

tu

Norwegian

en, ein to

tre

fire

fem

seks

sy

tte

ni

ti

agt

otte

nege

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1. AFRIKAANS

also known as the Cape Dutch

the name Afrikaans menas African in Dutch
it was considered a Dutch dialect until the early
20th century

Dialects:
Cape Afrikaans
Orange River Afrikaans
East Cape Afrikaans

2. DANISH
It is spoken by 5.4 million people in Denmark.
also spoken in Canada, Germany, Greenland,
Iceland, Norway, Sweden, United Arab Emirates,
USA.
The total number of speakers of Danish worldwide
is estimated at around 5.6 million

Two major dialect groups:

Bornholmsk (Eastern Danish)
Snderjysk (Southern Jutlandic)

Standard Danish is based

on Eastern Danish spoken
in and around the capital
of Copenhagen.

3. DUTCH
spoken by 16.4 million people in the Netherlands
(Holland) and in the northern half of Belgium
The worldwide population of Dutch speakers is 23
million people.

4. YIDDISH
The name yidish in Yiddish means Jewish
Yiddish has sometimes been described as a dialect
of German, probably because both languages
developed from Middle High German

 It

is spoken by an estimated 3 million

people in a number of countries of the
Jewish diaspora.
There are 215, 000 speakers of Yiddish in
Israel.

Two main branches :

Eastern Yiddish
Western Yiddish

5. SWEDISH
It is spoken in Sweden by 8 million people.
It is also spoken in Canada, Estonia,
Finland, Norway, United Arab Emirates,
and USA.
Swedish is closely related
to Norwegian and Danish.

Dialects
Swedish is generally divided into three main
dialect areas:
Northern

Swedish (Norrland)
Eastern Swedish (Finland Swedish,
Estonian Swedish)
Svea, Gutniska (Gutamal, Gotlandic,
Gutnic)

6.NORWEGIAN

It is the official language of Norway, where it is

spoken by 4.6 million people.

It is also spoken in the U.S., Canada, and Sweden.

It is estimated that there are around 5 million
speakers of Norwegian worldwide.

Norwegian has two standardized official spoken

and written varieties.
The two Norwegian languages are used in public
administration, religious services, and in the media:
Bokml (book-language)
Nynorsk (New-Norwegian)

Norwegian has many local dialects which are usually

divided into four major groups:

North (Nordnorsk)
Central (Trndsk)
West (Vestnorsk)
East (stnorsk)

7.ICELANDIC

.It is spoken mostly in Iceland

Icelandic is the de facto national language

of Iceland where it is spoken by all of Icelands
319,000 citizens.
Icelandic does not have any notable
dialect differences due to the fact
that it is spoken on one isolated
island.

8.ENGLISH

English has 335 million native speakers, which

makes it the third largest native language in the
world after Chinese (874 million) and Spanish (406
million).

English is one of the official languages of the United

Nations (UN), North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO), Organization of American States
(OAS), and the European Union (EU).

English is now the most widely studied second

language in the world because a working knowledge
of English is required in many fields and occupations
as well as for international communication.

More Nobel prizes in literature were awarded to

writers using English than those using any other
language.

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