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  2. 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.

  3. All Germanic languages are derived from Proto-Germanic, spoken in Iron Age Scandinavia and Germany. [2] The West Germanic languages include the three most widely spoken Germanic languages: English with around 360–400 million native speakers; [3] [nb 2] German, with over 100 million native speakers; [4] and Dutch, with 24 million native speakers.

  4. References. Sources. Germanic languages. The Germanic languages are a group of Indo-European languages. They 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] .

  5. Proto-Germanic. Proto-Norse; Proto-Italic. Proto-Romance. Common Romanian; Proto-Afroasiatic. Proto-Semitic. Proto-Arabic; Proto-Northeast Caucasian; Proto-Uralic. Proto-Finno-Ugric Proto-Finnic (Proto-Balto-Finnic) Proto-Samic; North and Central Asia. Proto-Turkic; Proto-Mongolic; Proto-Tungusic; Proto-Koreanic; Proto-Japonic; Proto-Yeniseian ...

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