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Proto-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 . [1]
- Germanic parent language
The Germanic parent language (GPL), also known as...
- Proto-language
In the tree model of historical linguistics, a...
- Germanic parent language
(Top) Overview. Nouns. Adjectives, determiners and pronouns. Verbs. Syntax. References. Proto-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.
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East Germanic languages; North Germanic languages; West Germanic languages; They all descend from Proto-Germanic, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European. South Germanic languages, an attempt to classify some of the West Germanic languages into a separate group, is rejected by the overwhelming majority of scholars. † denotes extinct languages.
Proto-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.
Proto-Armenian; Proto-Indo-Iranian. Proto-Iranian; Proto-Indo-Aryan. Early Romani; Proto-Balto-Slavic. Proto-Baltic; Proto-Slavic; Proto-Celtic. Common Brittonic; Proto-Germanic. Proto-Norse; Proto-Italic. Proto-Romance. Common Romanian; Proto-Afroasiatic. Proto-Semitic. Proto-Arabic; Proto-Northeast Caucasian; Proto-Uralic. Proto-Finno-Ugric ...