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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] .
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1.1. 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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Proto-Germanic language Map of the pre-Roman Iron Age in Northern Europe showing culture(s) associated with Proto-Germanic, c. 500 BCE. The red shows the area of the preceding Nordic Bronze Age in Scandinavia ; the magenta-colored area towards the south represents the Jastorf culture of the North German Plain .
Contents. Proto-Germanic language. Learn about this topic in these articles: cases. In Indo-European languages: Changes in morphology. 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.
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.
