English is a development of the West Germanic language family.

It is a West Germanic language spoken by around 22 million people.

German is a West Germanic language and is one of the world's major languages.

The following table shows a list of various linguistic features, and their extent among the West Germanic languages.

The following innovations are common to the West Germanic languages:

It is a West Germanic language related to Dutch.

In some West Germanic languages cognate words of a different etymology exist.

This process occurs in all West Germanic languages.

Dutch underwent none of these sound changes and can thus be said to occupy a central position within the West Germanic languages.

It was on the other hand a common name in West Germanic languages and especially among the Franks.

The English language is a West Germanic language spoken in many countries around the world.

English is a West Germanic language, the modern variant of which is generally dated from about 1550.

No attested West Germanic languages show any reflexes of these vowels.

A similar change happened in the other West Germanic languages, although after the earliest records of those languages.

Double negation is uncommon in other West Germanic languages.

Changes that occurred in the West Germanic languages:

This shift may be part of the same development as in the West Germanic languages, or it may have occurred independently.

It is a West Germanic language and was spoken in Merovingian times, preceding the 7th century.

Dutch and English are both part of the West Germanic language group and share several aspects.

English and German are both West Germanic languages.

This change took a good bit longer to catch on in West Germanic languages other than Old English, but it eventually did.

Afrikaans has a similar phonology to other West Germanic languages, especially Dutch.

Ever polite, I didn’t feel the moment was right to remind the irate woman that English is actually a West Germanic language.

But the form is preserved in the older preterite-presents, even in the older West Germanic languages.

Friso-Saxon is a collective name for a certain group of dialects belonging to the West Germanic languages.