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Romano-Germany group of languages


Going from least to most specific: Indo-European, Germanic, West Germanic. West Germanic is the most narrow sub-category, but in everyday usage, most people say they're both Germanic languages.

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All of those languages are in the Indo-European family. More specifically:


  1. Finish is in the Uralicfamily.
  2. English Dutch Swedish and Norwegian are in the Germanic family
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English Dutch and Swedish are part of the Germanicfamily.

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