GERMANIC LANGUAGES         Present and earlier forms of German, English, Dutch-Flemish, Afrikaans, Yiddish, Frisian, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, and Faeroese belong to the family of languages called Germanic. These languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family. Of these, English has the largest number of speakers, considerably more than 300 million. For some language families there are written records of the parent language. The Romance languages, for example, are derived from Latin. But in the case …showed first 75 words of 507 total…

…showed last 75 words of 507 total…is the s that is normally used for plurals, though some nouns change their form entirely for plurals. In German there are many more forms for both nouns and verbs, and adjectives change in order to conform to the use of the noun in a sentence. Verbs change spelling with each person (I, you, he, we, you, they), and they change also with each tense. Adjectives and nouns change, depending on case nominative, objective, possessive.