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West Germanic languages

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West Germanic languages

Summary

West Germanic languages is a language family[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of language_family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,374 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • West Germanic languages's instance of is recorded as language family[3].
  • West Germanic languages's ISO 639-6 code is recorded as gmcw[4].
  • West Germanic languages's GND ID is recorded as 4447499-4[5].
  • West Germanic languages's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11938810x[6].
  • West Germanic languages's subclass of is recorded as Germanic languages[7].
  • West Germanic languages's IETF language tag is recorded as gmw[8].
  • West Germanic languages's Commons category is recorded as West Germanic languages[9].
  • West Germanic languages's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 102[10].
  • West Germanic languages's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0140qt[11].
  • West Germanic languages's topic's main category is recorded as Category:West Germanic languages[12].
  • West Germanic languages's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 439[13].
  • West Germanic languages's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 6--39[14].
  • West Germanic languages's Linguist List code is recorded as wger[15].
  • West Germanic languages's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • West Germanic languages's Glottolog code is recorded as west2793[17].
  • West Germanic languages's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/West-Germanic-languages[18].
  • West Germanic languages's ISO 639-5 code is recorded as gmw[19].
  • West Germanic languages's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'West Germanic'}[20].
  • West Germanic languages's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Westgermanisch'}[21].
  • West Germanic languages's distribution map is recorded as Europe germanic-languages 2.PNG[22].
  • West Germanic languages's YSO ID is recorded as 37962[23].
  • West Germanic languages's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00080907n[24].
  • West Germanic languages's exact match is recorded as http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#WestGermanic[25].
  • West Germanic languages's NicoNicoPedia ID is recorded as 西ゲルマン語群[26].
  • West Germanic languages's KBpedia ID is recorded as WestGermanicLanguage[27].

Why It Matters

West Germanic languages ranks in the top 1% of language_family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,374 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Archaeology & Language. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Archaeology & Language. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . YSO-Wikidata mapping project. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-04-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  2. 4w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-04-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Umls cui → CL969854
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