Editing West Germanic languages (section)

== Family tree ==
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[[File:Einteilung der Germanen nach Maurer.en.svg|thumb|upright=2.75|Grouping of the main Germanic tribes (which can be equated with their languages/dialects) according to [[Friedrich Maurer (linguist)|Friedrich Maurer]]]]

Divisions between subfamilies of continental Germanic languages are rarely precisely defined; most form [[Dialect continuum|dialect continua]], with adjacent [[dialect]]s being mutually intelligible and more separated ones not.

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* '''West Germanic languages'''
** '''[[North Sea Germanic]] / [[Ingvaeonic languages]]'''
*** [[Anglo-Frisian languages|Anglo-Frisian]]
**** [[Anglic languages|Anglic]]
***** [[English language|English]]
***** Irish Middle English / [[Normans in Ireland|Hiberno-Norman]] / Irish Anglo-Norman<ref name=Hickey2005>{{cite book |last= Hickey |first= Raymond|title= Dublin English: Evolution and Change |year= 2005 |publisher= John Benjamins Publishing |isbn= 90-272-4895-8 |pages=196–198}}</ref><ref name=Hickey2002>{{cite book |last= Hickey |first= Raymond|title= A Source Book for Irish English |year= 2002 |publisher= John Benjamins Publishing |isbn= 9027237530 |pages= 28–29}}</ref>{{sfnp |Hammarström |Forkel |Haspelmath |Bank |2023 |p= }}
****** [[Fingalian language|Fingalian]] (extinct)
****** [[Yola language|Yola]] (extinct)
***** [[Scots language|Scots]]
**** [[Frisian languages|Frisian]]
***** [[West Frisian languages|West Frisian]]
****** [[Hindeloopen Frisian]]
****** [[Schiermonnikoog Frisian]]
****** Westlauwers–Terschellings
******* [[Terschelling Frisian]]
******* [[West Frisian language|Mainland West Frisian]]
******** Clay Frisian
******** Wood Frisian
********* [[Westereendersk]]
***** [[East Frisian language|East Frisian]]
****** Ems
******* [[Saterland Frisian language|Saterland Frisian]]
****** Weser
******* [[Wangerooge Frisian]]
******* [[Wursten Frisian]]
***** [[North Frisian language|North Frisian]]
*** [[Low German]]
**** [[Northern Low Saxon]]
**** [[Westphalian language|Westphalian]]
**** [[Eastphalian language|Eastphalian]]
**** [[Marchian]]
**** [[Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch]]
**** [[Central Pomeranian dialect|Central Pomeranian]]
**** [[East Pomeranian dialect|East Pomeranian]] (moribund)
**** [[Low Prussian dialect|Low Prussian]] (moribund)
**** [[Dutch Low Saxon]]
** '''[[Weser–Rhine Germanic]] / [[Istvaeones|Istvaeonic languages]]'''
*** [[Low Franconian]]
**** [[Dutch language|Dutch]]
***** [[West Flemish]]
***** [[East Flemish]]
***** [[Zeelandic]]
***** [[Central Dutch dialects|Central Dutch]]
****** [[Hollandic dialect|Hollandic]]
******* [[Afrikaans]]
******** [[Arabic Afrikaans]]
******* [[Kaaps]]
****** [[Kleverlandish]]
***** [[Brabantian dialect|Brabantian]]
**** [[Limburgish]]
*** [[Central German]]
**** [[Central Franconian languages|Central Franconian]]
***** [[Ripuarian language|Ripuarian]]
***** [[Luxembourgish language|Luxembourgish]]
**** [[Rhine Franconian languages|Rhine Franconian]], including the dialects of [[Hessen]], [[Pennsylvania Dutch language|Pennsylvania German]], and most of those from [[Lorraine Franconian|Lorraine]]
***** [[Pennsylvania Dutch language|Pennsylvania Dutch]]
**** [[Thuringian dialect|Thuringian]]
**** [[Upper Saxon German]]
**** Schlesisch–Wilmesau
***** Bielsko-Biała{{citation needed|date=August 2023}}
****** [[Alzenau dialect|Halcnovian]]
****** [[Wymysorys language|Wymysorys]]
***** [[Silesian German|Silesian]] (moribund)
**** [[High Prussian]] (moribund)
** '''[[Elbe Germanic]] / [[Irminones|Irminonic languages]]'''
*** [[Upper German]]
**** [[Alemannic German|Alemannic]], including [[Swiss German language|Swiss German]] and [[Alsatian language|Alsatian]]
**** [[Swabian German|Swabian]]
**** [[Bavarian language|Bavarian]]
**** [[East Franconian]]
**** [[South Franconian]]
**** [[Lombardic language|Lombardic]] (extinct)
*** [[Yiddish language|Yiddish]] (a language based on [[Middle High German]])
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