GERMANIC BRANCH

By: Sergi De Manuel & Júlia

Hong Ventayol
WHERE IS IT FROM?
 Is originates from Old Norse and
Saxon
 The vast majority of Celtic and
Germanic use the Latin Alphabet
RELATIVES AND
VARIETIES
 Dutch and German are the closest
major languages related to
English
 Flemish and Afrikaans are
varieties of Dutch while Yiddish is
a variety of German
ICELANDIC AND
GOTHIC
 Icelandic is the least changed of
the Germanic Language, it is
close to old Norse
 Gothic is from Central Europe
(France, Danube Region, Iberian
Peninsula and North Africa)
GERMANIC LANGUAGE
 German has a system of four
cases and three genders
 Case is a property where a noun
takes a different ending