Indo-European (Germanic)
7 languages
English
The most widely spoken language in the world by total speakers. Official language of 67 countries. T...
German
The most widely spoken first language in the European Union. Known for compound nouns that can be ar...
Dutch
The closest major language to English. Official in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname. Flemish i...
Icelandic
The closest living language to Old Norse, the tongue of the Vikings. Icelanders still read 800 year ...
Swedish
The most spoken North Germanic language. Official in both Sweden and Finland, where it lines some co...
Afrikaans
The youngest standardized Germanic language, split from Dutch in the 1800s. Grammar is famously lean...
Yiddish
The historic tongue of Ashkenazi Jews, fusing medieval German with Hebrew and Slavic. Written in Heb...