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    Northwest Germanic is a proposed grouping of the Germanic languages, representing the current consensus among Germanic historical linguists. It does not...
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    The West Germanic languages constitute the largest of the three branches of the Germanic family of languages (the others being the North Germanic and the...
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    Proto-Germanic eventually developed from pre-Proto-Germanic into three Germanic branches during the fifth century BC to fifth century AD: West Germanic, East...
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  • In the Germanic languages, a strong verb is a verb that marks its past tense by means of changes to the stem vowel. The majority of the remaining verbs...
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    Futhark, or Germanic Futhark, is the oldest form of the runic alphabets. It was a writing system used by Germanic peoples for Northwest Germanic dialects...
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    North Sea Germanic, also known as Ingvaeonic (/ˌɪŋviːˈɒnɪk/ ING-vee-ON-ik), is a postulated grouping of the northern West Germanic languages that consists...
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    The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe,...
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    shared with West Germanic: The retraction of Proto-Germanic ē (/ɛː/, also written ǣ) to ā. Proto-Germanic *jērą 'year' > Northwest Germanic *jārą, whence...
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    The Germanic peoples were historical groups of people that once occupied Northwestern and Central Europe and Scandinavia during antiquity and into the...
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    Runes (redirect from Germanic rune)
    alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples. Runes were used to write Germanic languages (with some exceptions) before they adopted...
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