a branch of the Indo-European family of languages; members that are spoken currently fall into two major groups: Scandinavian and West Germanic

an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries

the standard German language; developed historically from West Germanic

a German dialect spoken in northern Germany

the West Germanic language of the Netherlands

a West Germanic language spoken in Friesland in the northwestern Netherlands; a near relative of English