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  1. Proto Germanic

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    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

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    Proto-Germanic is hypothesized to have fractured into three primary dialectal groups following the initial Germanic migrations:
    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…