West Germanic

基本解釋

As we have seen above, English belongs to the Low West Germanic branch of the Indo-European family.
前面我們已經(jīng)看到，英語屬于印歐語系的低地西日爾曼語分支。
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Afrikaans dutch english flemish and german are the more important languages within the west germanic grouping.
南非荷蘭語、蘭語、英語、蘭芝語及德語則屬西日爾曼語的幾種重要語言。
This contrastive analysis shows that as in West Germanic languages, there also exist adjunct middles in Chinese.
對(duì)比分析表明，漢語和西日耳曼語支的英語、德語和荷蘭語一樣，也存在附加語中間結(jié)構(gòu)。

The West of the Germanic tribes that had toppled the Roman empire was weak and it was divided.
弱小分裂的西方日耳曼部族,推翻了羅馬帝國(guó)
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a subbranch of the Germanic languages that consists of English, Frisian, Dutch, Flemish, Afrikaans, Low German, German, Yiddish, and their associated dialects