Contemporary West Germanic languages
It is said that the East Germanic languages were probably all very similar. The East Germanic branch of the Germanic languages was spoken by the Germanic speaking people who, in the second through fourth centuries C. It is one of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages, and within this group is one of the eleven official languages of the Netherlands and one of the three official languages of Belgium. It diverged from common North Germanic about 800 C. It is said that the East Germanic languages are Rocket German reviews and extinct. It is one of the eleven official languages of the Netherlands and one of the three official languages of Belgium. Frisian is a contemporary West Germanic language developed from seventeenth century Dutch. However Low Franconian, an approximate ancestor of Dutch-Flemish, was closely related to Frankish.
