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Germanic

Noun CEFR B2
d͡ʒɜːˈmæn.ɪk

Definitions

  1. The early, undocumented ancestral language from which other Germanic languages developed, such as Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Frisian, English, German, Faroese, Icelandic, Yiddish, Norwegian and Swedish.
  2. A native of Germania.
  3. The group of Indo-European languages that developed from (Ur-)Germanic.

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Examples

“Belter is composed mainly of Chinese, Japanese, Slavic, Germanic, and romance languages because Earth's most common tongues would be the ones to survive⟳ to form⟳ the new brogue of the cosmos.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

germanic acid Germanic h Germanic New Medicine Germanicia Germanicist germanide

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