What makes English a Germanic language?

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The Germanic languages constitute a sub-branch of the Indo-European language family. The common ancestor of all of the languages in this branch is Proto-Germanic which was spoken in approximately the mid-1st millennium BC in Iron Age northern Europe. Proto-Germanic, along with all of its descendants, is characterized by a number of unique linguistic features.

Early varieties of Germanic enter history with the Germanic peoples moving south from northern Europe in the 2nd century BC, to settle in north-central Europe. The most widely spoken Germanic languages are English and German, with approximately 309–500 million native speakers.

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