Select Spatial Distributions of Germanic Languages The North-West Germanic Divide Germanic Languages in Global Context Other Germanic Altaic North Germanic Indo-European Chukotko- Uralic Asianitic West Germanic Kamchatkan Afro-Asiatic Nilo-Saharan Niger-Congo Data Source: GermanTribes.org, Languages-Germanic , http://www.germantribes.org/languages/germanic.htm Khoisan Dravidian Sino-Tibetan Germanic Australian- Austric Papuan Aboriginal Native No Population American West North East West East Scandinavian Scandinavian Gothic Icelandic Faroese Nynorsk Swedish Danish Norwegian Low High Yiddish Data Sources: Bernard Comrie Ed., et al. The Atlas of Languages; German German Howard Veregin, Ed., Goode’s World Atlas. Dutch English Alemannish Upper Middle Afrikaans Frisian German German Vlaams Swabian German Speakers in the United States, 2000 Vocabulary Comparison of Germanic Languages Frankish Luxembourgish Alsatian Austrian Standard Pennsylvanian Bavarian German German English father four full house brown out mouse Data Source: Bernard Comrie Ed., et al. The Atlas of Languages German Vater vier voll Haus braun aus Maus Germanic Dialects of Dutch vader vier vol huis bruin uit muis Continental Europe Swedish fader fyra full hus brun ut mus Percentage of Danish fader re fuld hus brun ud mus Population Speaking German at Home >5% 1%-5% Norwegian far re full hus brun ut mus <1% Data Source: Characterisation of the Germanic language family, Data Source: US Census Bureau, Census 2000, Summary File 3. http://s2.ned.univie.ac.at/Publicaties/taalgeschiedenis/en/germaans.htm Speakers of Other West Germanic Languages Speakers of Scandinavian Languages Germanic Languages in South Africa in the United States, 2000* in the United States, 2000* Upper German Middle German Low German Percentage Speaking Other Dutch West Germanic Percentage Speaking Languages Scandinavian Languages at Home Afrikaans at Home >2% > 0.75% *Finnish, a member English Frisian *Includes Afrikaans, 0.5%-2% of the Uralic Language 0.25%-0.75% Dutch, and < 0.5% Family, has been Pennsylvania Dutch excluded < 0.25% Non-Germanic Data Source: http://onlinegermanclasses.com/ Data Source: SIL Ethnologue, http://ethnologue.com wp-content/uploads/2009/01/german_dialects.png Data Source: US Census Bureau, Census 2000, Summary File 3. Data Source: US Census Bureau, Census 2000, Summary File 3. Ryan Cooper.