- Proto-Germanic language - Wikipedia
Proto-Germanic (abbreviated PGmc; also called Common Germanic) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Germanic languages A defining feature of Proto-Germanic is the completion of the process described by Grimm's law, a set of sound changes that occurred between its status as a dialect of Proto-Indo-European and its gradual divergence into a separate language The end of the Common
- Germanic languages - Wikipedia
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people [nb 1] mainly in Europe, Northern America, Oceania, and Southern Africa The most widely spoken Germanic language, English, is also the world's most widely spoken language with an estimated 2 billion speakers All Germanic languages are derived from Proto
- Indo-European languages - Wikipedia
By the time the first written records appeared, Indo-European had already evolved into numerous languages, spoken across much of Europe, South Asia, and part of Western Asia Written evidence of Indo-European appeared during the Bronze Age in the form of Mycenaean Greek and the Anatolian languages of Hittite and Luwian
- Evolution of languages - Wikipedia
The Migration Period reshuffled the extent of Germanic, Slavic and invading steppe peoples in Europe and the Near East The almost entirely unattested Hunnic language was spoken by the invading Huns and used alongside Gothic in conquered areas according to Priscus
- Early Germanic culture - Wikipedia
Linguists postulate that an early Proto-Germanic language existed and was distinguishable from the other Indo-European languages as far back as 500 BCE [4] From what is known, the early Germanic tribes may have spoken mutually intelligible dialects derived from a common parent language but there are no written records to verify this fact The Germanic tribes moved and interacted over the next
- Indo-European migrations - Wikipedia
Archaeology traces the spread of artifacts, habitations, and burial sites presumed to be created by speakers of Proto-Indo-European in several stages, from their hypothesized Proto-Indo-European homeland to their diaspora throughout Western Europe, Central Asian, and South Asia, with incursions into East Asia [1][2] Recent genetic research
- Germanic peoples - Wikipedia
Roman sources state that the Germanic peoples made decisions in a popular assembly (the thing) but that they also had kings and war leaders The ancient Germanic-speaking peoples probably shared a common poetic tradition, alliterative verse, and later Germanic peoples also shared legends originating in the Migration Period
- Paleo-European languages - Wikipedia
A related term, "Pre-Indo-European", refers more generally to the diverse languages that were spoken in Eurasia before the Indo-European migrations This category thus includes certain Paleo-European languages (apart from those that were replaced by Uralic languages), along with many others from West, Central, and South Asia
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