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Proto-Germanic

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Proto-Germanic

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Also known as Common Germanic, Ur-Germanic, Proto-Germanic language, gem-pro, PGmc

proto-language of the Germanic languages

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Proto-Germanic is the reconstructed ancient language that is believed to be the common ancestor of all modern Germanic languages, such as English, German, and Scandinavian languages. Linguists study Proto-Germanic to understand how these languages evolved and to trace their shared origins back thousands of years.

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Key facts

Reconstruction of
Germanic languages
Region
Northwestern Europe
Era
c. 500 BC –AD 200
Reconstructed ancestor
Proto-Indo-European
Lower order reconstructions
Proto-West Germanic Proto-Norse (attested) Proto-East Germanic

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Wikidata facts

Followed by
Proto-Norse
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indigenous to
Germanic people
short name
PGmc
has grammatical gender
neuter
linguistic typology
fusional language
has grammatical case
instrumental case
has grammatical mood
imperative
has tense
past tense
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Map of the pre-Roman Iron Age in Northern Europe showing cultures associated with Proto-Germanic, c. 500 BC. The area of the preceding Nordic Bronze Age in Scandinavia is shown in red; magenta areas towards the south represent the Jastorf culture of the North German Plain.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Proto-Germanic” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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