Talk:List of Germanic languages

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This should be a redirect to Germanic language. That article already fully covers the subject. Enhance that article if needed rather adding YARA (yet another redundant article). - Kbh3rd 02:33, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * This is a part of the list of Indo-European languages. First, it should be retained because I've noticed that some of the languages given on the page you have linked to aren't real languages, but dialects.  Second, the layout of having a separate page for each subgroup is easier to read.  Third, there are a lot of pages that this page links to; deleting them would be even more redundant.  Fourth, this series that I am working on (Indo-European) needs to be a part of a List of world languages, which would link to the IE page as a family.  This project will put the most comprehensive language information into Wikipedia for good.  -- Merovingian [[Image:Atombomb.gif|]] Talk  03:19, Sep 14, 2004 (UTC)
 * I see where you're going with this now.  The 'see also' is good.  (BTW, have you seen my contribution to Talk:Proto-Indo-European_language ;)  - Kbh3rd 05:30, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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Haltsnovian language is orphaned. Should it link here somehow? kwami (talk) 07:37, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

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Afrikaans: where is this "significant influx of words from other languages"?
The statement that Afrikaans had "a significant influx of vocabulary from other languages" is not only largely debatable, but it maybe even reeks of politics, which many of us Afrikaans speakers feel should have no place in the field of linguistics whatsoever. One does not even know why Afrikaans should have received this lable on its own, while other Germanic languages had an even greater "influx from other languages" (e.g. mixing up words of Germanic and Latin origins to an overwhelming degree, as was done in English). In reality, there are only a small handful of words from Asian and African origins in everyday standard Afrikaans, and even a word such as "baie" (meaning many) which was always thought to have come from "the East", now appears to have had its origin squarely in Lower Saxony, Germany. The drawing up of word lists to show that Afrikaans' origins were creole, serves no moral purpose. If it were true, I myself would have embraced the notion as part of our shared history, but one cannot be "politically correct" and override historic fact. That was done all too many times in our turbulent past. It simply cannot be allowed to be done again, with the scale now only tipped to "the other side". Mieliestronk (talk) 07:57, 4 April 2021 (UTC)