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Old Saxon, alone of the West Germanic languages except for Frisian, consistently preserves Germanic /j/ after a consonant, e.g. hēliand "savior" (Old High German: heilant, Old English: hǣlend, but Gothic: háiljands). Germanic umlaut, when it occurs with short a, is inconsistent, e.g. hebbean or habbian "to have" (Old English: habban).
e. English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands. The Anglo-Saxons settled in the British Isles from the mid-5th century and came to dominate the bulk of southern ...
A rune is a letter in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples. Runes were used to write Germanic languages (with some exceptions) before they adopted the Latin alphabet, and for specialised purposes thereafter. In addition to representing a sound value (a phoneme ), runes can be used to represent the ...
420/430. Library of Congress. PD-PF. Universal Decimal. 811.11. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Germanic languages. Language portal. For a list of words relating to Germanic languages, see the Germanic languages category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Main article: Germanic languages.
Old High German ( OHG; German: Althochdeutsch (Ahdt., Ahd.)) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally identified as the period from around 500/750 to 1050. Rather than representing a single supra-regional form of German, Old High German encompasses the numerous West Germanic dialects that had undergone the set of consonantal ...
Dec 19, 2018 · In the case of the Germanic languages, this is Proto-Germanic (an unattested, reconstructed proto-language). The subgroups of the Germanic languages are based on shared innovations, compared to the proto-language. Wikipedia lists a few of them. One example would be the ending of the 2nd person singular past of strong verbs, such as to bear.
