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Proto-Germanic
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proto-language of the Germanic languages
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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- Germanic languages
- Followed by
- Proto-Norse
- Follows
- Proto-Indo-European
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- exact match
- wold.clld.org/language/290
- indigenous to
- Germanic people
- Stack Exchange tag
- linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/proto-germanic
- short name
- PGmc
- has grammatical gender
- neuter
- P10369
- David Peach
- linguistic typology
- fusional language
- topic's main category
- Category:Proto-Germanic language
- has grammatical case
- instrumental case
- has grammatical mood
- imperative
- has tense
- past tense
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
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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.