GGS-7, или "это просто сказка какая-то"

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But all those English dialects form only a one low-order subgroup of the Germanic language family. All the other subgroups - the various Scandinavian, German and Dutch languages - are crammed into the northwestern Europe.

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Угу. Вот, что по этому поводу думает Википедия:

Outside of Europe and the former Soviet Union, the largest German-speaking communities are to be found in the United States, Brazil and in Argentina
where millions of Germans migrated in the last 200 years; but the vast
majority of their descendants no longer speak German. Additionally,
German-speaking communities can be found in the former German colony of Namibia independent from South Africa since 1990, as well as in the other countries of German emigration such as Canada, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Venezuela (where Alemán Coloniero developed), South Africa and Australia.