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3 days ago · 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]
4 days ago · For example, what makes the Germanic languages a branch of Indo-European is that much of their structure and phonology can be stated in rules that apply to all of them. Many of their common features are presumed innovations that took place in Proto-Germanic, the source of all the Germanic languages.
2 days ago · English language, a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family that is closely related to the Frisian, German, and Dutch languages. It originated in England and is the dominant language of the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand.
- The English language is an Indo-European language in the West Germanic language group. Modern English is widely considered to be the lingua franca...
- As of 2020 there are 1.27 billion English speakers around the world. This makes it the most spoken language, ahead of Mandarin Chinese (1.12 billio...
- There has been much public and academic debate on whether African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is a dialect of English or its own separate la...
- Having emerged from the dialects and vocabulary of Germanic peoples—Angles, Saxons, and Jutes—who settled in Britain in the 5th century CE, English...
- English is not the official language of the United States of America. The country does not have an official language on the federal level. Many sta...
Take this with a big grain of salt. I'm by no means an expert and have very limited knowledge of the Proto-Germanic language. (My own language has retained some of the words and sentence structures, so it's a bit of a guess.) It looks like a prayer to the gods to bestow wisdom on a person.
4 days ago · Linguistic studies have revealed that these tribes originated from a hypothetical Proto-Germanic language, which was spoken around 500 BCE. Historians believe that the Proto-Germanic people emerged from a larger group known as the Proto-Indo-Europeans, who migrated from the Eurasian Steppe thousands of years ago.
3 days ago · Ahura Mazda, god of the Zoroastrians. 祆： 胡 神 也 。. From: Shuowen Jiezi, circa 2nd century AD. Xiān: húshén yě. [Pinyin] Xian is the god of the foreigners. ( source) The two components of the 祆 glyph are shì 示 / 礻 ("show, reveal, manifest; spirit") and tiān天 ("sky, heaven, celestial"). Although hugely important in the ...
