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The Germanic parent language ( GPL ), also known as Pre-Germanic Indo-European ( PreGmc) or Pre-Proto-Germanic ( PPG ), is the stage 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 evolved into Proto-Germanic .
Keywords added. The Germanic languages constitute one of the ten major branches of the Indo-European family. Proto-Germanic, the inferred common parent of the group, was a sister language to Proto-Greek, Proto-Italic, Proto-Indo-Iranian, and other descendants of Proto-Indo-European, which is presumed to have been spoken around 4000 bce.
The East Germanic languages, also called the Oder-Vistula Germanic languages, are a group of extinct Germanic languages that were spoken by East Germanic peoples. East Germanic is one of the primary branches of Germanic languages, along with North Germanic and West Germanic . The only East Germanic language of which texts are known is Gothic ...
PIE was probably spoken some 6,000 years ago, conceivably even earlier. Even the last common ancestor of Germanic and Italo-Celtic was probably spoken at least 5,000 years ago. Proto-Germanic, by contrast, is unlikely to have been spoken before about 2,500 years ago (c.500 bc). Thus a generous half of the reconstructable development of English ...
The end point is Proto-Germanic, the last stage from which all Germanic languages may be derived. And everything in-between may be called 'Pre-Proto-Germanic'. So there is a point in time when it is contemporary with Proto-Italic or Proto-Indo-Iranian, but for the most part it isn't, because those have a much more specific timeframe.
Old English ( Englisċ, pronounced [ˈeŋɡliʃ] ), or Anglo-Saxon, [1] is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It developed from the languages brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the mid-5th century, and the first Old English literary ...
Popular Theories about the Evolution of Proto-Germanic Languages. The primeval roots of the modern German language can be traced back to the 4th millennium BC, when the original homelands of the Indo-Germanic-speaking peoples are believed to have been located north and east of the Black Sea. However, the original Germanic language was born in ...
