Indo-European (Germanic)

7 languages

English

Indo-European1.5 billionLatin

The most widely spoken language in the world by total speakers. Official language of 67 countries. T...

German

Indo-European134 millionLatin

The most widely spoken first language in the European Union. Known for compound nouns that can be ar...

Dutch

Indo-European25 millionLatin

The closest major language to English. Official in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname. Flemish i...

Icelandic

Indo-European350,000Latin

The closest living language to Old Norse, the tongue of the Vikings. Icelanders still read 800 year ...

Swedish

Indo-European10 millionLatin

The most spoken North Germanic language. Official in both Sweden and Finland, where it lines some co...

Afrikaans

Indo-European17 millionLatin

The youngest standardized Germanic language, split from Dutch in the 1800s. Grammar is famously lean...

Yiddish

Indo-European1.5 millionHebrew

The historic tongue of Ashkenazi Jews, fusing medieval German with Hebrew and Slavic. Written in Heb...