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The 14 pages that link to West Germanic languages, each with the reason it gives.

• Old EnglishNarrower topic: Old English belongs to this branch and shares many structural features with its relatives.

• Middle EnglishNarrower topic: Middle English retains the grammatical and core vocabulary inheritance of this language branch.

• Dutch languageNarrower topic: Dutch belongs to this language branch and shares historical features with its relatives.

• Germanic languagesBroader topic: The precise internal relationships among these languages remain difficult to reconstruct.

• AfrikaansNarrower topic: Afrikaans belongs to this family through its descent from Dutch.

• Old High GermanNarrower topic: Old High German belongs to West Germanic, before later German varieties emerged.

• Frisian languagesNarrower topic: Frisian belongs to this branch, alongside languages with which it shares historical ancestry.

• Low GermanNarrower topic: Low German belongs to this branch and shares its inherited linguistic features.

• High German languagesNarrower topic: High German belongs to this broader branch of Indo-European.

• West FrisianNarrower topic: West Frisian belongs to this branch, alongside languages with both shared and divergent histories.

• GermanNarrower topic: German's closest linguistic classification places it within this family.

• History of EnglishNarrower topic: English developed within the West Germanic branch.

• LimburgishNarrower topic: Limburgish belongs to this branch, alongside Dutch and German.

• Phonological history of EnglishNarrower topic: English inherited key sound patterns through its West Germanic lineage.