[Irene Adler]

"When we first voted on establishing a national language, Germanic almost won."

I have never, ever heard of any such vote ever being held in this country at any time in its history. There is also no language called "Germanic" that I am familiar with. Please fill me in.

[justa-hairyape]

Hey, I am supposed to be asking the questions :> . At any rate, here is a diagram showing the Indo-European Branches of the Language Tree. Apparently, even English is considered Germanic, but hey, I am 1/2 Celtic Scottish and only 1/4 Austrian. So we did end up speaking a Germanic language after all thanks to all those Angles, Saxons and Normans. Link to Indo-European Language Tree

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

German, and the vote could have been about whether legal documents would be in German (along with English?) for the federal government. It was supposed to have lost by a single vote.