#West_Germanic_language__West_Germanic  a branch of the Germanic languages
  supertype:  Germanic_language__Germanic  a branch of the Indo-European family of languages; members that are spoken currently fall into two major groups: Scandinavian and West Germanic
  subtype:  English_language__English  an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the US and most of the Commonwealth countries
     subtype:  American_English__American_language__American  the English language as used in the United States
        subtype:  Black_English_Vernacular__Black_English__Ebonics  a nonstandard form of American English spoken by some American Black people
     subtype:  cockney  the nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London
     subtype:  King's_English  standard southern British English
     subtype:  Middle_English  English from about 1100 to 1450
        subtype:  East_Midland  the dialect of Middle English that replaced West Saxon as the literary language and which developed into Modern English
        subtype:  West_Midland  a dialect of Middle English
        subtype:  Northern  a dialect of Middle English that developed into Scottish Lallans
        subtype:  Kentish  a dialect of Middle English
        subtype:  Southwestern__West_Saxon  a dialect of Middle English
     subtype:  Modern_English  English since about 1450
     subtype:  Old_English__Anglo-Saxon  English prior to about 1100
        subtype:  West_Saxon  a literary dialect of Old English
        subtype:  Anglian  one of the major dialects of Old English
        subtype:  Jutish__Kentish  one of the major dialects of Old English
     subtype:  Oxford_English  the dialect of English spoken at Oxford University and regarded by many as affected and pretentious
     subtype:  Scottish__Scots__Scots_English  the dialect of English used in Scotland
        subtype:  Scottish_Lallans__Lallans  a dialect of English spoken in the Lowlands of Scotland
  subtype:  German_language__German__High_German  the standard German language; developed historically from West Germanic
     subtype:  Old_High_German  High German prior to 1200
     subtype:  Middle_High_German  High German from 1100 to 1500
     subtype:  Yiddish  a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken as a vernacular by European Jews
     subtype:  Pennsylvania_Dutch  a dialect of High German spoken in parts of Pennsylvania and Maryland
  subtype:  Low_German__Plattdeutsch  a German dialect spoken in northern Germany
     subtype:  Old_Saxon  Low German prior to 1200
     subtype:  Middle_Low_German  Low German from 1100 to 1500
  subtype:  Dutch  the West Germanic language of the Netherlands
     subtype:  Flemish_dialect__Flemish  one of two official languages of Belgium; closely related to Dutch
     subtype:  Afrikaans__Taal__the_Taal__South_African_Dutch  an official language of the Republic of South Africa; closely related to Dutch and Flemish
  subtype:  Frisian  a West Germanic language spoken in the northwestern Netherlands; a near relative of English
     subtype:  Old_Frisian  the Frisian language until the 16th century

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