West Germanic language family

GPTKB entity

Statements (55)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf language family
gptkbp:branch Germanic_languages
gptkbp:has_a Over 500 million
gptkbp:has_a_history_of gptkb:Old_High_German
gptkb:Old_English
gptkb:Old_Frisian
gptkb:Middle_Dutch
gptkbp:hasFacilities gptkb:Anglo-Frisian
Continental_West_Germanic
gptkbp:hasLanguage gptkb:Belgium
gptkb:Germany
gptkb:Netherlands
gptkb:South_Africa
gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:historical_significance European_history
gptkbp:historicalContext gptkb:Proto-Germanic
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label West Germanic language family
gptkbp:includes gptkb:Afrikaans
gptkb:Yiddish
gptkb:Frisian
Dutch
English
German
gptkbp:influence gptkb:Modern_English
Modern German
Modern Yiddish
Modern_Dutch
Modern_Afrikaans
gptkbp:is_characterized_by Vowel shifts
Compound words
Strong and weak verbs
Word order variations
Consonant shifts
Use of articles
gptkbp:is_part_of gptkb:Indo-European_languages
gptkbp:is_studied_in Historical linguistics
Linguistics
Philology
Sociolinguistics
gptkbp:is_used_in Business
Education
Government
Literature
Media
gptkbp:language gptkb:Low_German
gptkb:Middle_Dutch
gptkb:High_German
gptkb:West_Frisian
Saxon
Limburgish
Ripuarian Franconian
Hessian
gptkbp:related_to gptkb:East_Germanic_languages
gptkb:North_Germanic_languages