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What does Proto-Germanic mean?

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  1. Hypothetical prehistoric ancestor language of all Germanic languages, including English.
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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.

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