Wast Germanic leids

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The Wast Germanic leids is the lairgest brainch o the Germanic faimly o leids spack oreeginally juist atween the Rhine, Alps, Elbe an the German Ocean, but acause o Breetish, Dutch an tae a lesser stent German colonialism, nou ower the hail warld. The faimlie includes the Scots, Inglis, Dutch, German, Afrikaans an Frisie leids amang ithers. It is sib tae the North Germanic leids sic as Dens, Norwegian, Swadish, Icelandic and Faroese an ithers an the deid East Germanic leids sic as Gothic an aw.