Whether they actually spoke a Germanic language or not, is still uncertain.

This would be the only way to explain that all Germanic languages show these changes.

I got about as far as a boy who knew no old Germanic language could get.

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

Ethelberht's law code was the first to be written in any Germanic language and included 90 laws.

This is similar to many Germanic languages, such as English.

Similarly, the word "bear" may not be unique to Germanic languages.

The alternative word fall for the season traces its origins to old Germanic languages.

As in other Germanic languages, the compounds may be arbitrarily long.

Most verbs in the early stages of the Germanic languages were strong.