The break-up of the PrGmc speech-community

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http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~marisal/ie/germanic.html

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The break-up of the PrGmc speech-community

Divisions may have appeared within Germanic around 100 AD.

The traditional classification of the Germanic family is as follows:

                          Proto-Germanic
      ___________________|____________________
           |                   |                    |
  Proto-West Germanic     Proto-Norse         East Germanic
      _____|_____          ____|____________     (Gothic)
     |           |        |                 |
 Ingvaeonic      |    West Norse        East Norse
   __|_____      |      __|__           ____|____
  |    |   |     |     |     |     |    |    |
English | Dutch   | Icelandic |       Danish | Gutnish
       |         |       |       |
    Frisian    German    Norwegian       Swedish