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North Sea Germanic, also known as Ingvaeonic (/ ˌ ɪ ŋ v iː ˈ ɒ n ɪ k / ING-vee-ON-ik), is a postulated grouping of the northern West Germanic languages that consists of Old Frisian, Old English, and Old Saxon, and their descendants.
- Anglo-Frisian
Ingvaeonic, also known as North Sea Germanic, is a...
- North Germanic languages
North Sea Germanic (Ingvaeonic languages, ancestral to the...
- History of the North Sea
The Germanic Angles, Saxons, and Jutes from Frisia and...
- Anglo-Frisian
The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France. An epeiric sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north. It is more than 970 kilometres (600 mi) long and 580 kilometres (360 mi) wide ...
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North Sea Germanic, also known as Ingvaeonic / ˌ ɪ ŋ v iː ˈ ɒ n ɪ k /, is a group of West Germanic languages that were first spoken in what is now northern Germany, the Netherlands, and Denmark. They were also spread to the British Isles in the Migration Period. The languages were Old Frisian, Old English and Old Saxon.
The Ingaevones [ɪŋɡae̯ˈwoːneːs] were a Germanic cultural group living in the Northern Germania along the North Sea coast in the areas of Jutland, Holstein, and Lower Saxony in classical antiquity. Tribes in this area included the Angles, Chauci, Saxons, and Jutes.
West Germanic languages, group of Germanic languages that developed in the region of the North Sea, Rhine-Weser, and Elbe. Out of the many local West Germanic dialects the following six modern standard languages have arisen: English, Frisian, Dutch ( Netherlandic -Flemish), Afrikaans, German, and Yiddish.