Germanic, Germanic language - a branch of the Indo-European family of languages; members that are spoken currently fall into two major groups: Scandinavian and West Germanic

English, English language - an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries

German language, High German, German - the standard German language; developed historically from West Germanic

Low German, Plattdeutsch - a German dialect spoken in northern Germany

Dutch - the West Germanic language of the Netherlands

Frisian - a West Germanic language spoken in Friesland in the northwestern Netherlands; a near relative of English