East Germanic languages show no trace of the change, which argues strongly against its common Proto-Germanic origin. |
The tribes that came west also split up and developed Proto-Germanic into the languages German, Dutch, and Frisian. |
In this paper we will assess the hypothesis about several contact induced changes in Proto-Germanic, proposed by Kalevi Wiik. |
The Germanic languages are widely presumed to have descended from the so-called Proto-Germanic language. |