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Germanic languages
has 10 synonyms ↓
Asian languages
German languages
Germanic dialects
Germanic family
Germanic language
Germanic language family
Germanic language group
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are a group of related languages that constitute a branch of the Indo-European (IE) language family

The common ancestor of all the languages in this branch is Proto-Germanic, spoken in approximately the mid-1st millennium BC in Iron Age northern Europe

Proto-Germanic, along with all of its descendants, is characterized by a number of unique linguistic features, most famously the consonant change known as Grimm's law

Early varieties of Germanic enter history with the Germanic peoples settled in northern Europe along the borders of the Roman Empire in the second century

The most widely spoken Germanic languages are English and German, with approximately 400 million and 100 million native speakers respectively

possess several unique features, such as the following

Germanic Lexicon Project

Line dividing the North and West Germanic languages}}

Bibliographie der Schreibsprachen: Bibliography of medieval written forms of High and Low German and Dutch

Ethnologue Report for Germanic

Germanic Languages

The earliest evidence of Germanic languages comes from names recorded in the first century by Tacitus (especially from his work Germania), but the earliest Germanic writing occurs in a single instance in the second century BC on the Negau helmet

All Germanic languages are thought to be descended from a hypothetical Proto-Germanic, united by their having been subjected to the sound shifts of Grimm's law and Verner's law

Several of the terms in the table below have had semantic drift

For example, the form Sterben and other terms for die are cognates with the English word starve

There is also at least one example of a common borrowing from a non-Germanic source (ounce and its cognates from Latin)

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Germanic languageshas 10 synonyms ↓Asian languagesGerman languagesGermanic dialectsGermanic familyGermanic languageGermanic language familyGermanic language groupGermanicLanguagesTeutonic languageTeutonic languagesSuggest another synonym or correct a wrong one

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are a group of related languages that constitute a branch of the Indo-European (IE) language family

The common ancestor of all the languages in this branch is Proto-Germanic, spoken in approximately the mid-1st millennium BC in Iron Age northern Europe

Proto-Germanic, along with all of its descendants, is characterized by a number of unique linguistic features, most famously the consonant change known as Grimm's law

Early varieties of Germanic enter history with the Germanic peoples settled in northern Europe along the borders of the Roman Empire in the second century

The most widely spoken Germanic languages are English and German, with approximately 400 million and 100 million native speakers respectively

possess several unique features, such as the following

Germanic Lexicon Project

Line dividing the North and West Germanic languages}}

Bibliographie der Schreibsprachen: Bibliography of medieval written forms of High and Low German and Dutch

Ethnologue Report for Germanic

Germanic Languages

The earliest evidence of Germanic languages comes from names recorded in the first century by Tacitus (especially from his work Germania), but the earliest Germanic writing occurs in a single instance in the second century BC on the Negau helmet

All Germanic languages are thought to be descended from a hypothetical Proto-Germanic, united by their having been subjected to the sound shifts of Grimm's law and Verner's law

Several of the terms in the table below have had semantic drift

For example, the form Sterben and other terms for die are cognates with the English word starve

There is also at least one example of a common borrowing from a non-Germanic source (ounce and its cognates from Latin)

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Germanic languages
has 10 synonyms ↓
Asian languages
German languages
Germanic dialects
Germanic family
Germanic language
Germanic language family
Germanic language group
GermanicLanguages
Teutonic language
Teutonic languages
Suggest another synonym or correct a wrong one