Modern Germanic Languages

List all distinct Germanic languages with over 50,000 native speakers alive today.
A star denotes a minority language (e.g. no official status in any country, although it may be a recognized or regional language)
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Native Speakers
Language
7,200,000
Afrikaans
5,500,000
Danish
23,000,000
Dutch
380,000,000
English
✸ 66,000
Faroese
✸ 480,000
Frisian
92,000,000
German
330,000
Icelandic
390,000
Luxemburgish
5,000,000
Norwegian
✸ 130,000
Pennsylvania Dutch
✸ 125,000
Scots
9,200,000
Swedish
✸ 1,200,000
Yiddish
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Level 52
Jun 16, 2019
Isn't Scots a Gaelic variety?
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Level 53
Oct 3, 2019
Lowland Scots is Germanic, Scots Gaelic is Gaelic.
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Level 50
Sep 18, 2023
I put PennsylvaniaN Dutch! What a fool