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Germanic languages

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Germanic languages

Summary

Germanic languages is a language family[1]. It ranks in the top 0.3% of language_family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,102 views/month, #3 of 1,012).[2]

Key Facts

  • Germanic languages's instance of is recorded as language family[3].
  • Germanic languages is a type of Indo-European[4].
  • Germanic languages's Commons category is recorded as Germanic languages[5].
  • Germanic languages's said to be the same as is recorded as Proto-Germanic[6].
  • Germanic languages comprises East Germanic[7].
  • Germanic languages comprises North Germanic[8].
  • Germanic languages comprises West Germanic languages[9].
  • Germanic languages comprises Northwest Germanic[10].
  • Germanic languages's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Germanic languages[11].
  • Germanic languages's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • Germanic languages's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13].
  • Germanic languages's described by source is recorded as The American Cyclopædia[14].
  • Germanic languages's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[15].
  • Germanic languages's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • Germanic languages's topic has template is recorded as Template:Germanic languages[17].
  • Germanic languages's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/germanic-languages[18].
  • Germanic languages's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C161904[19].
  • Germanic languages's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Germanisch'}[20].
  • Germanic languages's studied by is recorded as Germanic philology[21].
  • Germanic languages's exact match is recorded as http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133070166[22].
  • Germanic languages's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles[23].
  • Germanic languages's model item is recorded as North Germanic[24].
  • Germanic languages's model item is recorded as West Germanic languages[25].
  • Germanic languages's model item is recorded as East Germanic[26].

Why It Matters

Germanic languages ranks in the top 0.3% of language_family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,102 views/month, #3 of 1,012).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 107 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

It has been cited as an influence by English[29], a natural language[30], in American Samoa[31] and Venetian[32], a natural language[33], in Italy[34].

FAQs

Who did Germanic languages influence?

Germanic languages has been cited as an influence by English[29] and Venetian[32].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Archaeology & Language. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Archaeology & Language. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [33] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [34] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14h ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-10-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 152
    Wikipedia languages → ['ab', 'af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'ang', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'bar', '
    Has part(s) → East Germanic, North Germanic, West Germanic languages +1
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||isv, my */ import labels from sitelinks"
  2. 18d ago · Arctic Circle System · 2026-09-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) → East Germanic, North Germanic, West Germanic languages +1
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P527]]: [[Q108662]]"
  3. 7w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i73102
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 06959259-n
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47826|batch #47826]]: OEWN"
  4. 12w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → CCvzJ
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  5. 13w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → germanic-languages
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: germanic-languages, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289930486|germanic languages (#289930486)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|H"
  6. 14w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Oxford classical dictionary id → 2829
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P9106]]: 2829, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/107285066|Germanic languages (#107285066)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/4102|Oxford Classical"
  7. 16w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0007723-germanske-jazyky
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0007723-germanske-jazyky, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  8. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National library of korea id → KSH1998010134
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|10 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 3856, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  9. 22w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-04-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nci thesaurus id → C161904
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|2 */ [[Property:P1051]]: 6749"
  10. 22w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-04-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Umls cui → C0574308
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P2892]]: C0574308"
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