Proto-Germanic language - Wikipedia
WEBProto-Germanic (abbreviated PGmc; also called Common Germanic) is the reconstructed proto-language of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages. Proto-Germanic eventually developed from pre-Proto-Germanic into three Germanic branches during the fifth century BC to fifth century AD: West Germanic , East Germanic and North …
Germanic languages - Wikipedia
WEBIn the 21st century, German dialects are dying out [nb 3] as Standard German gains primacy. [14] The common ancestor of all of the languages in this branch is called Proto-Germanic, also known as Common Germanic, which was spoken in about the middle of the 1st millennium BC in Iron Age Scandinavia.
Proto-Germanic grammar - Wikipedia
WEBProto-Germanic grammar. Historical linguistics has made tentative postulations about and multiple varyingly different reconstructions of Proto-Germanic grammar, as inherited from Proto-Indo-European grammar. All reconstructed forms …
A Grammar of Proto-Germanic: 1. Introduction - University of …
WEBProto-Germanic (PGmc) is the reconstructed language from which the attested Germanic dialects developed; chief among these are Gothic (Go.) representing East Germanic, Old Norse (ON) representing North Germanic, and Old English (OE), Old Saxon (OS), and Old High German (OHG) representing West Germanic.
Germanic parent language - Wikipedia
WEBIn historical linguistics, the Germanic parent language (GPL), also known as Pre-Germanic Indo-European (PreGmc) or Pre-Proto-Germanic (PPG), is the reconstructed language of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family that was spoken c. 2500 BC – c. 500 BC, after the branch had diverged from Proto-Indo-European but before it ...
West Germanic languages - Wikipedia
WEBA relative chronology of about 20 sound changes from Proto-Northwest Germanic to Proto-West Germanic (some of them only regional) has been published by Don Ringe in 2014. [26] A phonological archaism of West Germanic is the preservation of grammatischer Wechsel in most verbs, particularly in Old High German. [27]
Germanic languages - Simple English Wikipedia, the free …
WEBThey came from one language, Proto-Germanic, which was first spoken in Scandinavia in the Iron Age. Today, the Germanic languages are spoken by around 515 million people as a first language . [1] English is the most spoken Germanic language, with 360-400 million native speakers.
Proto-Germanic language | Britannica
WEBContents. Proto-Germanic language. Learn about this topic in these articles: cases. In Indo-European languages: Changes in morphology. Proto-Germanic had only six cases, the functions of ablative (place from which) and locative (place in which) being taken over by constructions of preposition plus the dative case.
Proto-language - Wikipedia
WEBIt is also sometimes called the common or primitive form of a language (e.g. Common Germanic, Primitive Norse). In the strict sense, a proto-language is the most recent common ancestor of a language family, immediately before the family started to diverge into the attested daughter languages.
A Grammar of Proto-Germanic: Contents - University of Texas at …
WEBThis grammar of Proto-Germanic is designed to provide a comprehensive but concise treatment of the language from approximately 2500 B.C. to the beginning of our era. All linguistic components are taken into consideration.
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