What is Germanic languages?
{{Infobox language family | name = Germanic | altname = Teutonic | region = Principally northern, western and central Europe, the [[Americas]] ([[Anglo-America]], [[Caribbean Netherlands]] and [[Suriname]]), [[Southern Africa]] and [[Oceania]] | familycolor = Indo-European | protoname = [[Proto-Germanic language|Proto-Germanic]] | child1 = [[North Germanic languages|North Germanic]] | child2 = [[West Germanic languages|West Germanic]] | child3 = [[East Germanic languages|East Germanic]] <small>(extinct)</small> | iso2 = gem | iso5 = gem | glotto = germ1287 | glottorefname = Germanic | lingua = 52- (phylozone) |map=Germanic languages.svg |mapalt=world map showing countries where a Germanic language is the primary or official language |mapcaption=''World map showing countries where a Germanic language is the primary or official language''<br> {{legend|#800000|Countries where (a) Germanic language(s) is/are the [[:en:first language|first language(s)]] of the majority of the population}} {{legend|#ff0000|Countries or regions where (a) Germanic language(s) is/are (an) official but [[:en:Second language|not primary language(s)]]}} {{legend|#f6c0f1|Countries or regions where (a) Germanic language(s) is/are (an) unofficial but recognised/used in some areas of life/spoken among a local minority}} }} The '''Germanic''' languages are a group of [[Indo-European languages]]. They came from one language, [[Proto-Germanic language|Proto-Germanic]], which was first spoken in [[Scandinavia]] in the [[Iron Age]]. Today, the Germanic languages are spoken by around 515 million people as a [[first language]].{{sfnp|König|van der Auwera|1994}} [[English language|English]] is the most spoken Germanic language, with 360-400 million native speakers.{{sfn|Crystal|2006|pp=424–426}} The Germanic languages are the [[East Germanic languages]] (all [[Extinct language|extinct]]), the [[North Germanic languages]], and the [[West Germanic languages]]. When Proto-Germanic split from [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]], one of