Modern Standard Germanic Languages, Table

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Table 14: Modern Standard Germanic Languages

where spoken approximate number use as a

of native speakers second language

English Great Britain, Ireland, United 450,000,000 extreme

States, Canada, Australia,

New Zealand, South Africa

German Germany, Austria, Switzerland 98,000,000 extensive

(part)

Netherlandic The Netherlands, Belgium 21,000,000 moderate

(Dutch, (part)

Flemish)

Swedish Sweden, Finland (part) 8,000,000 slight

Afrikaans South Africa (part), Namibia (part) 6,000,000 slight

Danish Denmark 5,000,000 slight

Norwegian Norway 4,000,000 slight

Frisian The Netherlands, Germany 400,000 —

Yiddish various countries 400,000 slight

Icelandic Iceland 260,000 —

Faroese Faroe Islands 44,000 —

The source for the English-, Netherlandic-, and Yiddish-language figures is

B.E. Grimes (ed.), Ethnologue (1992); other figures, except Frisian, are from

various official country sources.

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