The more easterly groups such as the Vandals are thought to have been united in the use of East Germanic languages, the most famous of which is German.
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Classified by linguists as an east Germanic language, Gothic eventually died out sometime in the Middle Ages as the Visigoths and Ostrogoths were absorbed by other European peoples.
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By AD 500 west Germanic speakers had apparently developed a distinct language continuum with extensive loaning from Latin ( due to their ongoing contact with the Romans ), whereas the east Germanic languages were dying out.
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The "'North Germanic languages "'make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages, a sub-family of the Indo-European languages, along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages.
