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The Germanic languages (such as English and German) came from Indo-European which started in the Fertile Crescent area (middle east region) Indo-European spread north and as people became more isolated, Indo-European branched off (Germanic, Slavic, and Romance languages are examples) As people in these sub groups split off, their language chnaged again, giving us more languages such as Russian(slavic), Latvian(Slavic) Italian(romance) Spanish(romance) English(Germanic) High German(Germanic) and low German(Germanic) The main German we know today is High German, and that is it's origin.

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