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West Germanic is the largest branch of the Germanic family of languages, inlcuding such languages as English, Dutch, and German.
The other families of Germanic are North Germanic and East Germanic.
Note that divisions between subfamilies of Germanic are rarely precisely defined; most form continuous clines, with adjacent dialects being mutually intelligible and more separated ones not.
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