Over 7000 languages are spoken across the world today. Chinese, the language with the most native speakers, has 13 variations, whilst Similarly, Arabic has 20 variations

The Eastern Germanic languages, of which only Gothic is known about in some detail, have become entirely extinct. Of the other two groups, the Western Germanic languages are some of the most spoken of any language group around the world, with hundreds of millions of speakers.
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1. What are the three branches of the Germanic languages?
Germanic languages, branch of the Indo-European language family. Scholars often divide the Germanic languages into three groups:1) West Germanic, including English, German, and Netherlandic (Dutch);2) North Germanic, including Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Faroese; 3) and East Germanic, now extinct, comprising only Gothic and the languages of the Vandals, Burgundians, and a few other tribes.

2. Try to determine the origin of some Modern English words (German not) on the basis of consonant correspondences (each pair of w descends from the same root): pedestrian foot; cordial - hearty, lab lip, twofold double(Попробуйте определить происхождение некоторых современных английских слов (немецких not) на основе соответствия согласных (каждая пара букв w происходит от одного и того же корня): пешеходная ступня; сердечный - сытный, лабораторная губа, двукратный двойной)

3. What are the North Germanic languages?
Scandinavian languages, also called North Germanic languages, group of Germanic languages consisting of modern standard Danish, Swedish, Norwegian (Dano-Norwegian and New Norwegian), Icelandic, and Faroese
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1. What is the earliest name for ancient Germans?
In the Late Medieval and Early Modern period, Germany and Germans were known as Almany and Almains in English, via Old French alemaigne, alemans derived from the name of the Alamanni and Alemannia.
2. Approximately how many people speak Germanic languages and when
Approximately 515 million people are native speakers of a Germanic language and another two billion people speak one as a second language. Although there are significant differences between each of the Germanic languages, they are all origins of the Proto-Germanic language tree and therefore share many similarities.
3. Which group of tribes spoke English according to Pliny's classification
According to Pliny there were several Germanic tribes: The Vindili. They lived in the eastern part of the territory inhabited by the Germanic .
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1. What is the earliest name for ancient Germans?
In the Late Medieval and Early Modern period, Germany and Germans were known as Almany and Almains in English, via Old French alemaigne, alemans derived from the name of the Alamanni and Alemannia.
2. What are the three branches of the Germanic languages?