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Germanic Languages (3010 words) |
 | East Norse is the eastern branch of the North Germanic languages used in Denmark and Sweden and their present and former colonies. |
| Lombardic was the East Germanic language of the Germanic speaking people who invaded and settled in Italy in the sixth century C. It is said that Lombardic participated in the so-called second sound shift which is primarily attested in High German. |
| West Norse is the western branch of the North Germanic languages used in Iceland, Ireland, Norway, the Hebrides, Orkney, Shetland, and the Faroe Islands. |
| Verbix -- Germanic. Conjugate verbs in 50+ languages (837 words) |
| The earliest extensive Germanic text is the (incomplete) Gothic Bible, translated about AD 350 by the Visigothic bishop Ulfilas (Wulfila) and written in a 27-letter alphabet of the translator's own design. |
| The Germanic languages are related in the sense that they can be shown to be different historical developments of a single earlier parent language. |
| In Germanic these were reduced to indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods; a full active voice plus passive found only in Gothic; three persons; full singular and plural forms and dual forms found only in Gothic; and one infinitive (present) and two participles (present and past). |
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