If you don't know where English is from, you really don't understand the language. This map shows where the Germanic languages originated from, but excludes English, unfortuately. Basically, after Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Germanic emerged in an area east of the Rhine river and extending through the northern portion of Europe to roughly what today is the east of Poland, and then again northwards. The Whole Germanic Branch 1 No Eastern Germanic languages have survived to our modern era (see below). In essence, the Germanic branch of Indo-European is organized geographically: West, which itself is divided into Western, Northern and High (i.e. mountain ); North, also subdivided into Western and Eastern; and East Germanic. Many of these languages share similar characteristics, though some have very original points themselves: Many have verb-final positions, meaning that in compound or complex sentences, only the first auxiliary verb is placed ...
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