west germanic

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Definition of west germanic in English English dictionary: Of or relating to these languages; A branch of the Germanic language family consisting of English, Frisian languages, Dutch, Low Saxon languages, German, Yiddish, and their immediate predecessors; The putative unattested ancestor of these languages (more properly called Proto-West Germanic)
The degree of actual Dutch influence on the Norwich dialect is somewhat difficult to determine for the rather obvious reason that Dutch and English are closely related languages, both descended from West Germanic, and resemblances bewteen Dutch and forms of English are therefore most usually due not to the influence of Dutch on English, or vice versa, but to their common origin.; A subdivision of the Germanic languages that includes High German, Low German, Yiddish, Dutch, Afrikaans, Flemish, Frisian, and English; a branch of the Germanic languages