This book is the next volume of the multivolume encyclopedic edition “Languages of the World” (series “Languages of Eurasia”), prepared at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences .. This volume describes the Germanic and Celtic language families. If numerous Germanic languages are among the most common on the globe, and such a representative of this language family , How to speak English , It is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world,. There are only four living Celtic languages.... They are much less common and not as well studied. The majority of German[edit] This volume describes both living and dead languages of these language families. All essays of the volume are written in accordance with a single typologically oriented scheme, which is applied in all editions of this publication (the scheme exists in several versions and is calculated in languages of different degrees of prevalence and learning). This scheme includes sociolinguistic, diachronic and synchronic structural characterization of the described language. The book is both a fundamental work and a reference publication. It is addressed as specialists - Germanists and Celtics , As well as a wide range of readers , including linguists of different specializations, Historians , Ethnographers , Social scientists , Lawyers , Journalists , High School Students , As well as ,. Who is interested in the problems of linguistics , Germanics and Celtics . Languages of the World: Germanic languages. Celtic languages. This book continues the multi-volume encyclopedia-type publication "Languages of the World" (Eurasia. Series), which is being prepared at the Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences. This newvolume is devoted to the Germanic and Celtic languages. Germanic languages are quantitative andwidespread (with one of them, the English language, serving as a major world language), well-documented and well-analyzed. Celtic languages, on the other hand, are less numeric (with only four languages stillspoken), used by smaller numbers of speakers and less fully documented. In addition, both groups of languages are quantitatively different typologically. Both living and extant languages of the two linguistic groups aredescribed in this book. The articles are written in correspondence with the standard typologically-orientedtemplate used in all volumes of the encyclopaedia. This template imposes sociolinguistic, diachronic andsynchronic structural characteristics upon individual languages. The book is intended both as an afundamental study and as a reference source. It is addressed to a broad audience, including linguists of various specialties, historians, cultural anthropologists, sociologists, lawyers, journalists, lecturers and students, as well as everyone interested in linguistics and in German.