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German
West Germanic language native to Central Europe
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Dutch
West Germanic language
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Swedish
North Germanic language spoken in Sweden and Finland
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Danish
North Germanic language spoken in Northern Europe
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Norwegian
North Germanic language spoken in Norway
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Afrikaans
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Icelandic
North Germanic language mainly spoken in Iceland
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Yiddish
thumb|The opening page of the 1828 Yiddish-written Jewish holiday of Purim play Esther, oder die belohnte Tugend from [[Fürth (by Nürnberg), Bavaria]]
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Luxembourgish
Luxembourgish ( ; also Luxemburgish, Luxembourgian, Letzebu(e)rgesch; ) is a West Germanic language that is spoken mainly in Luxembourg. About 400,000 people speak Luxembourgish worldwide.
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Breton
Celtic language spoken in France
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Faroese
insular Nordic language spoken as a native language by the people of Faroe Islands
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Kashmiri
language from the Dardic subgroup of the Indo-Aryan languages
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Limburgish language
Limburgish ( or ; ; also Limburgian, Limburgic or Limburgan) is the collective designation for a group of closely related language varieties spoken in most of Belgian and Dutch Limburg and in the adjacent areas of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Ingush
language spoken by the Ingush people
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Ripuarian
German dialect group
Nawat
language of Central America
O'odham
Uto-Aztecan language spoken in Mexico and US
Kaaps
Kaaps (, meaning 'of the Cape'), also known as Afrikaaps, is a dialect of Afrikaans that evolved in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Since the early 2020s there has been a significant increase in the number of works of literature published in Kaaps. Most works in Kaaps come from authors located in the Cape Flats area of Cape Town, South Africa, where it is most commonly spoken. Although Kaaps is considered a growing phenomenon, it is more specifically a colloquial dialect of Afrikaans. All other distinct colloquial variations of Afrikaans, including Kaaps, are organically connected t