Provides a unique, up-to-date survey of twelve Germanic languages from English and German to Faroese and Yiddish.

Germanic - one of the largest sub-groups of the Indo-European language family - comprises 37 languages with an estimated 470 million speakers worldwide. This bo

History, archaeology, and human evolutionary genetics provide us with an increasingly detailed view of the origins and development of the peoples that live in N

This accessible introductory reference source surveys the linguistic and cultural background of the earliest known Germanic languages and examines their similar

The first comprehensive overview of the structure of modern Germanic languages. Written by a team of internationally-renowned experts, it is a vital resource fo