Germanic languages
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Germanic languages is a language family, and is part of the larger language family known as Indo-European languages. Germanic includes the following languages: English, Scots, German, Dutch, Frisian, Afrikaans, Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian.
"Germanic" is a Latin word describing the people in what the Romans called "Germania" (pronounced with a hard "G"), the territories east of the Rhine river and north of the Danube. The people who settled there called themselves "Teut" or "Teutonic" in their native languages (modern German "Deut" as in Deutschland).
List of Germanic languages
West Germanic languages
North Germanic languages
The North Germanic languages all descend from Old Norse which was the language used by the Vikings.
East Germanic languages
(All of which are extinct.)