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6 days ago · Defenders of continued use of the term Germanic argue that the speakers of Germanic languages can be identified as Germanic people by language regardless of how they saw themselves. Linguists and philologists have generally reacted skeptically to claims that there was no Germanic identity or cultural unity, [31] and they may view Germanic ...
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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]
- c. 500 BC-200 BC
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2 days ago · English is classified as a Germanic language because it shares innovations with other Germanic languages such as Dutch, German, and Swedish. These shared innovations show that the languages have descended from a single common ancestor called Proto-Germanic.
- Manually coded English, (multiple systems)
3 days ago · Germanic languages arose in South Scandinavia around 500 BC and then spread south to Lower Saxony, Germany, and the Netherlands in the Roman Iron Age. By 200 AD, we have a Proto Norse language as a Northern dialect, and by 500 AD, Old Dutch is there as a Western Germanic dialect. Therefore, Germanic languages predate the specific Norse dialect ...
5 days ago · This article provides a comparative description of the properties of the adjectival domain in Germanic, focusing on differences between continental West Germanic (German, Dutch) and North Germanic (Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish).
4 days ago · Catalog Description: Introduction to basic grammatical concepts, terminology, and linguistics with emphasis on German-English relationship. Overview of phonology, morphology, syntax, and history of Germanic languages and people, both ancient and modern.
German was invented when a bunch of Englishmen sat down and decided to make a new language. They had fun creating some things, but eventually got bored and just started directly translating stuff. That's why there's so many compound words.