Publication details
Nové pohledy na klasifikaci starých germánských jazyků
| Title in English | New Views on the Classification of the Old Germanic Languages |
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | Combining the qualitative approach based on phonetic and morphological isoglosses and the quantitative method called "recalibrated glottochronology", we conclude that the Germanic protolanguage, i.e. the common protolanguage of all historically attested Germanic languages, disintegrated in the first half of the 5th cent. BCE, when a separation of the East and Northwest branches began. In the middle of the 2nd cent. CE the disintegration of the Northwest branch into West (Continental) and North (Peninsular ot Iuto-Scandinavian) subbranches followed. In the last third of the 4th cent., the ancestor of the Old High German crystallized from the West subbranch. The disintegration of the remaining North Sea dialect zone is defined by dates 430, when the ancestor of Old Frisian separated from a common ancestor of Old English and Old Saxon, and approximately 460, when ancestors of Old English and Old Saxon separated from each other. |
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