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| Dylanarama Newbie United States Joined 5217 days ago 30 posts - 31 votes Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 2 24 February 2012 at 7:28am | IP Logged |
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Does anyone know what branch of the indo european languages is the closest to the Germanic languages?
Did the proto Germanic language have a brother language that branched out to something else? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4550 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes  Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish | Message 2 of 2 24 February 2012 at 8:21am | IP Logged |
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AFAIK modern mainstream Indo-European linguistics does not recognize any other branch as closest to Germanic. I have heard of disputed theories linking Germanic to Italo-Celtic (whose existence is also a controversial proposition) and to Balto-Slavic, but the evidence for either does not seem compelling. The best things we can go by right now are probably the Centum group and the Standard Average European Sprachbund, neither of which is considered to directly imply genetic relation. Edited by vonPeterhof on 24 February 2012 at 8:22am 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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