Langenesis

Indo-European family

Proto-Germanic

c. 500 BCE – 500 CE Reconstructed

Proto-Germanic (c. 500 BCE – 500 CE) is a reconstructed Indo-European language. It has 37 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Germanic.

See Proto-Germanic on the interactive map

Reconstructed ancestor of the Germanic languages, after the operation of Grimm's Law. Diversification into West, North, and East Germanic is dated to roughly the early centuries CE.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE – 500 CE

Descendants 3

Sister languages 10

Also descended from Proto-Indo-European.

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