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The 20 pages that link to Germanic languages, each with the reason it gives.

• Indo-European languagesBroader topic: It traces English to one of the family’s major branches.

• Jacob GrimmNarrower topic: Comparing these languages gave Jacob evidence for historical relationships and sound change.

• Grimm's lawNarrower topic: Their shared consonant correspondences preserve the outcomes of Grimm's law.

• Romance languagesCompared with: Germanic languages are a neighboring Indo-European branch, not descendants of Latin.

• Celtic languagesCompared with: Germanic languages expanded across regions where Celtic languages were once more widespread.

• Proto-GermanicBroader topic: These languages descend from Proto-Germanic and provide evidence for its reconstruction.

• Franz BoppRelated: Germanic forms provided another branch for Bopp’s cross-language grammatical comparisons.

• Germanic peoplesNarrower topic: Language relationships provide the clearest shared thread among many peoples called Germanic.

• West Germanic languagesNarrower topic: West Germanic is one of the three principal branches of this larger family.

• Rasmus RaskBroader topic: Rask’s comparisons helped establish the historical connections within this branch.

• Indo-European ablautBroader topic: Their strong-verb classes retain inherited vowel alternations, though reshaped over time.

• North Germanic languagesNarrower topic: This broader family places North Germanic alongside West and East Germanic branches.

• Old High GermanNarrower topic: This family supplies the deeper linguistic ancestry of Old High German.

• High German consonant shiftNarrower topic: Comparing Germanic cognates makes the shift's distinctive consonant outcomes visible.

• Interpretatio germanicaNarrower topic: Their weekday vocabulary preserves the divine substitutions across generations.

• Gothic languageNarrower topic: Gothic is an early-attested member of this language family.

• Scandinavian languagesNarrower topic: The Scandinavian group belongs to this wider family.

• German dialectsNarrower topic: German dialects developed within this wider family of related languages.

• Gothic BibleNarrower topic: Gothic is an early-attested member of this language family.

• History of EnglishNarrower topic: English is one member of this wider family, not an isolated development.