West Germanic

English is a development of the West Germanic language family.

It is a West Germanic language spoken by around 22 million people.

The most commonly used words in English are West Germanic.

German is a West Germanic language and is one of the world's major languages.

In this early period, there is no specifically West Germanic runic tradition.

The word felt itself comes from West Germanic feltaz.

Many West Germanic dialects underwent a series of sound shifts.

The following table shows a list of various linguistic features, and their extent among the West Germanic languages.

It is at this point that North and West Germanic begin to diverge.

And as a placename on its own, in the West Germanic countries:

The East and West Germanic tribes were the first to convert through various means.

The following innovations are common to the West Germanic languages:

Cladistic principles and linguistic reality: the case of West Germanic.

Note that final "-z" was lost already in West Germanic times.

The West Germanic counterpart of the skald is the scop.

In North and West Germanic, *z changes to r by rhotacism.

It is a West Germanic language related to Dutch.

In some West Germanic languages cognate words of a different etymology exist.

Bern- is the old form of bear, from West Germanic *beran-.

This process occurs in all West Germanic languages.

English has no vestige of the West Germanic gerund.

Mercian grammar has the same structure as other West Germanic dialects.

Dutch underwent none of these sound changes and can thus be said to occupy a central position within the West Germanic languages.

It was on the other hand a common name in West Germanic languages and especially among the Franks.

The various Latin forms are derived from West Germanic *þiudisk and its later descendants.