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1. Proto Germanic

   Linked via "East Germanic"

   Proto-Germanic ($\text{PGmc}$) is the reconstructed common ancestor of all Germanic languages spoken by Germanic peoples from approximately the early first millennium BCE until the divergence into North Germanic, East Germanic, and West Germanic branches around the beginning of the Common Era [1]. Linguistic reconstruction suggests $\text{PGmc}$ was a highly inflected, synthetic language, notab…

2. Proto Germanic

   Linked via "East Germanic"

   North Germanic: Ancestor to the North Sea languages (e.g., Old Norse).
   East Germanic: Represented almost exclusively by Gothic.
   West Germanic: The ancestor of continental and insular West Germanic languages (e.g., Old English, Old High German).

3. Proto Germanic

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   West Germanic: The ancestor of continental and insular West Germanic languages (e.g., Old English, Old High German).
   The exact geographical and temporal boundaries of these divisions remain conjectural, largely based on the distribution of isoglosses such as the presence of the reflex of PIE/) $z$ as $r$ in the later West Germanic languages, a feature absent in the [East Germanic](/entries/eas…