The Germanic Languages are a branch stock of the Indo-European Languages. This stock itself branches out as shown below.
+----Burgundian
| +----East
| |
East----+----Gothic---------+----West
| | |
| | +----Gepid
| +----Lombardic
| |
| +----Vandalic
|
| +----Frankish: mutated to French
| |
| | +----English
| | |(Old, Middle, New)
| | |
| | | +----East
| +----Ingaevonic-----+ |
| | +----Frisian--------+----West
| | |(Old, Middle, New) |
| | | +----North
West----+ |
| | | +----Low Saxon---------Middle Low German----New Low German
| | +----Low German-----+
| | (Old, Middle, New) | +----Dutch-Flemish
Germanic--+ | +----Low Franconian----Middle Dutch----+
| | +----Afrikaans
| | +----Alemannic
| | |
| | +----Franconian
| +----High German----+
| (Old, Middle, New) +----Swabian
| |
| +----Yiddish
|
| +----Danish
| | (Old, New)
| |
| +----East-----------+----Swedish
| | | (Old, New)
| | |
| | +----Gutnish
North----+
| +----Faroese
| |
| +----Icelandic
+----West-----------+ +----Nynorsk
+----Norwegian----+
| +----Bokmal
+----Norn