Germanic languages in Europe

Write down all the Germanic languages official spoken at home in the European countries

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Native Speaker	Language
5,500,000	Danish
22,200,000	Dutch
67,000,000	English
91,000,000	German
330,000	Icelandic
5,100,000	Norwegian
9,000,000	Swedish

Level 69

Sep 18, 2014

What about Faroese and Luxembourgish? Also, some linguists say that actually there's two Norwegian languages, Nynorsk and Bokmål.

Level 24

Sep 18, 2014

Yes, they are the two Norwegian written languages. There are a lot more different dialects, so "Norwegian" is hardly a language itself. Commonly it refers to bokmål though

Level 77

Sep 18, 2014

Swedish, Danish and Norwegian are all more or less the same though. There are Finnish dialects that differ more from each other than Swedish and Norwegian for example. It's all political anyway, something that was born with spread of media and the birth of the nation state. Which is why I don't think there's any reason to start to split hairs about which "languages" are included and which aren't. --- Faroese is not an official language of a European country.

Level 38

Mar 18, 2021

Swedish and Norwegian are basically dialectical, but Danish is phonologically pretty different from those two.

Level 85

Sep 19, 2014

Frisian the closest language to English is a minority language in the Netherlands and Germany.

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Apr 9, 2018

Luxembourgish is official in Luxembourg.

Level 37

May 5, 2018

Typed in Icelandic as a last resort. (Felt that all remaining languages were either Latin or Cyrillic) and was surprised to find that it was right.