Editing Germanic languages (section)

===Statistics===
{{Pie chart
| thumb = right
| caption = Germanic languages by share (West Germanic in yellow-red shades and North Germanic in blue shades):{{refn|group=nb|It uses the lowest estimate for English (360 million).}}
| label1 = English
| value1 = 69.9
| color1 = LightYellow
| label2 = German
| value2 = 19.4
| color2 = Yellow
| label3 = Dutch
| value3 = 4.5
| color3 = Orange
| label4 = Afrikaans
| value4 = 1.4
| color4 = OrangeRed
| label5 = Other West Germanic
| value5 = 1
| color5 = DarkRed
| label6 = Swedish
| value6 = 1.8
| color6= Cyan
| label7 = Danish
| value7 = 1.1
| color7 = DodgerBlue
| label8 = Norwegian
| value8 = 1
| color8 = Blue
| label9 = Other North Germanic
| value9 = 0.1
| color9 = DarkBlue
}}

[[File:Nordic Bronze Age.png|thumb|upright=1.2|Area of the [[Nordic Bronze Age]] culture, ca 1200 BC]]

{| class="wikitable" style="margin-left:1em"
|+ Germanic languages by number of native speakers
|-
! Language !! Native speakers (millions){{refn|group=nb|Estimates for English, German and Dutch are less precise than these for the rest of the Germanic languages. These three languages are the most widely spoken ones; the rest are largely concentrated in specific places (excluding Yiddish and Afrikaans), so precise estimates are easier to get.}}
|-
! [[English language|English]]
| style="text-align: right;" | 360–400<ref name="NE100" />
|-
! [[German language|German]]
| style="text-align: right;" | 100<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/10128380/German-should-be-a-working-language-of-EU-says-Merkels-party.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/10128380/German-should-be-a-working-language-of-EU-says-Merkels-party.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=German 'should be a working language of EU', says Merkel's party|first=Jeevan|last=Vasagar|date=18 June 2013|via=The Telegraph }}{{cbignore}}</ref>{{refn|group=nb|Estimate includes most [[High German]] dialects classified into the German language spectrum, while leaves some out like the [[Yiddish language]]. [[Low German]] is regarded separately.}}
|-
! [[Dutch language|Dutch]]
| style="text-align: right;" | 24<ref name="taalgebied">{{cite web |url=http://taalunieversum.org/taal/feiten_en_weetjes/#feitencijfers |title=Nederlands, wereldtaal |access-date=7 April 2011 |publisher=Nederlandse Taalunie |year=2010 |archive-date=21 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021192842/http://taalunieversum.org/taal/feiten_en_weetjes/#feitencijfers |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
! [[Swedish language|Swedish]]
| style="text-align: right;" | 11.1<ref name="NE">[[Nationalencyklopedin]] "Världens 100 största språk 2007" The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007</ref>
|-
! [[Afrikaans]]
| style="text-align: right;" | 8.1<ref>{{Cite web |orig-date=April 2015 |date=October 2023 |title=Afrikaans - Worldwide distribution |url=https://www.worlddata.info/languages/afrikaans.php |access-date=3 April 2024 |website=Worlddata.info |language=en |archive-date=3 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240403212057/https://www.worlddata.info/languages/afrikaans.php |url-status=live }}</ref>{{unreliable source?|certain=yes|reason=Self-published source. See Special:PermanentLink/1244711437#worlddata.info|date=September 2024}}
|-
! [[Danish language|Danish]]
| style="text-align: right;" | 5.5<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/dan|title=Danish|website=ethnologue.com|access-date=18 June 2014|archive-date=8 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210208132654/https://www.ethnologue.com/language/dan|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]]
| style="text-align: right;" | 5.3<ref>{{cite web |title=Befolkningen |url=https://www.ssb.no/befolkning/faktaside/befolkningen |website=ssb.no |language=no |access-date=29 November 2018 |archive-date=23 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210323174146/https://www.ssb.no/befolkning/faktaside/befolkningen |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
! [[Low German]]
| style="text-align: right;" |3.8<ref>{{cite web |title=Status und Gebrauch des Niederdeutschen 2016 |url=https://www.ins-bremen.de/fileadmin/ins-bremen/user_upload/umfrage2016/broschuere-umfrage.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116170501/https://www.ins-bremen.de/fileadmin/ins-bremen/user_upload/umfrage2016/broschuere-umfrage.pdf |archive-date=16 January 2021 |access-date=13 March 2021 |website=ins-bremen.de |page=40 }}</ref><ref name="Taaltelling Nedersaksisch" />{{rp|p=78}}
|-
! [[Yiddish]]
| style="text-align: right;" | 1.5{{sfnp|Jacobs|2005}}
|-
! [[Scots language|Scots]]
| style="text-align: right;" | 1.5<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/sco|title=Scots|website=Ethnologue|access-date=12 March 2015|archive-date=27 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210327010335/https://www.ethnologue.com/language/sco|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! [[Frisian languages]]
| style="text-align: right;" | 0.5<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/fry|title=Frisian|website=Ethnologue|access-date=18 June 2014|archive-date=22 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210322022417/https://www.ethnologue.com/language/fry|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! [[Luxembourgish]]
| style="text-align: right;" | 0.4<ref>See [[Luxembourgish|Luxembourgish language]].</ref>
|-
! [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]]
| style="text-align: right;" | 0.3<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.statice.is/?PageID=1390|title=Statistics Iceland|website=Statistics Iceland|access-date=18 June 2014|archive-date=26 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200526135129/https://www.statice.is/?PageID=1390|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! [[Faroese language|Faroese]]
| style="text-align: right;" | 0.07<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/fao|title=Faroese|website=ethnologue.com|access-date=18 June 2014|archive-date=23 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210323174207/https://www.ethnologue.com/language/fao|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! Other Germanic languages
| style="text-align: right;" | 0.01{{refn|group=nb|All other Germanic languages, including [[Gutnish language|Gutnish]], [[Dalecarlian dialects]] (among them [[Elfdalian language|Elfdalian]]) and any other minor languages.}}
|-
! Total
| style="text-align: right;" | est. 515{{refn|group=nb|Estimates of native speakers of the Germanic languages vary from 450 million{{sfnp|König|van der Auwera|1994}} through 500 million and up to more than 520 million. Much of the uncertainty is caused by the rapid spread of the [[English language]] and conflicting estimates of its native speakers. Here used is the most probable estimate as determined by ''Statistics'' section.}}
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