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*the west germanic languages constitute the largest of the 3 branches of the ‘germanic family’ of languages*
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((the others being the…)
‘north germanic languages’
*the extinct) ‘east germanic’ languages*
(i assume ‘south german’ takes us back to ‘latin’)
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(the 4 most prevalent ‘west germanic languages’ are…)
‘afrikaans’
‘english’
‘german’
‘dutch’
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(the family also includes other ‘high’ + ‘low’ german languages…)
(including ‘yiddish’)
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(…in addition to other ‘franconian languages’…)
(like ‘luxembourgish’ + ‘ingvaeonic’ language)
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(and of course the ‘ anglo-linguistics’)
(such as the ‘frisian’ languages + ‘scots’)
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(additionally, several ‘creoles’, ‘patois’, and ‘pidgins’ are based on ‘dutch’ and ‘english’ as they were languages of ‘colonial empires’)
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☜*“EXTANT GERMANIC LANGUAGES”* ☞ 
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