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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Proto-Germanic_languageProto-Germanic language - Wikipedia

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   The Proto-Germanic language developed in southern Scandinavia (Denmark, south Sweden and southern Norway) and the northern-most part of Germany in Schleswig Holstein and northern Lower Saxony, the Urheimat (original home) of the Germanic tribes.

2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Proto-languageProto-language - Wikipedia

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   In the tree model of historical linguistics, a proto-language is a postulated ancestral language from which a number of attested languages are believed to have descended by evolution, forming a language family. Proto-languages are usually unattested, or partially attested at best.

3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Germanic_languagesGermanic languages - Wikipedia

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   All Germanic languages are derived from Proto-Germanic, spoken in Iron Age Scandinavia and Germany. The West Germanic languages include the three most widely spoken Germanic languages: English with around 360–400 million native speakers; German, with over 100 million native speakers; and Dutch, with 24 million native speakers.

4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › List_of_proto-languagesList of proto-languages - Wikipedia

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   Below is a partial list of proto-languages that have been reconstructed, ordered by geographic location.

5. lrc.la.utexas.edu › books › pgmcA Grammar of Proto-Germanic - University of Texas at Austin

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   Definition of Proto-Germanic. 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.

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   Germanic languages. Derivation of Germanic languages from Proto-Germanic. Like every language spoken over a considerable geographic area, Proto-Germanic presumably consisted of a number of geographic varieties or dialects that over time developed in different ways into the different early and modern Germanic languages.

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   How were Germanic languages derived from Proto-Germanic languages?

   • Derivation of Germanic languages from Proto-Germanic. Like every language spoken over a considerable geographic area, Proto-Germanic presumably consisted of a number of geographic varieties or dialects that over time developed in different ways into the different early and modern Germanic languages.

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   What is the difference between Proto-Germanic and Germanic parent language?

   • While Proto-Germanic refers only to the reconstruction of the most recent common ancestor of Germanic languages, the Germanic parent language refers to the entire journey that the dialect of Proto-Indo-European that would become Proto-Germanic underwent through the millennia.

   Proto-Germanic language - Wikipedia

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   What is a proto-language in historical linguistics?

   • In the tree model of historical linguistics, a proto-language is a postulated ancestral language from which a number of attested languages are believed to have descended by evolution, forming a language family. Proto-languages are usually unattested, or partially attested at best. They are reconstructed by way of the comparative method.

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   When was Proto-Germanic spoken?

   • Proto-Germanic itself was likely spoken after c. 500 BC, and Proto-Norse from the 2nd century AD and later is still quite close to reconstructed Proto-Germanic, but other common innovations separating Germanic from Proto-Indo-European suggest a common history of pre-Proto-Germanic speakers throughout the Nordic Bronze Age .

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8. www.britannica.com › topic › Proto-Germanic-languageProto-Germanic language | Britannica

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   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. In Modern English these are reduced to two cases in nouns, a general case that does duty…