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| | Germanic Languages |
 | | The West Germanic branch of the Germanic languages is spoken by the Germanic speaking people who occupied the southwestern part of the Germanic homeland. | | | West Norse is the western branch of the North Germanic languages used in Iceland, Ireland, Norway, the Hebrides, Orkney, Shetland, and the Faroe Islands. | | | This tree shows the traditional division of Germanic into East, North, and West, however the relationship between East and North Germanic and the principle branches of West Germanic leads many scholars to divide all Germanic into five equal-weight branches (clockwise from the north): North, East, Elbe, Rhine-Weser, and North Sea Germanic. |
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http://softrat.home.mindspring.com/germanic.html
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| | First Europe Tutorial - Germanic Invasions |
| | Although the Germanic tribes precipitated the breakup of the Roman state in the West, the imperial government survived in the Greek speaking East. | | | By the end of the fifth century, Roman imperial government had come to an end in the West as that half of the empire was thoroughly overrun by Germanic peoples. | | | However, the invasions of the Germanic tribes, particularly those of the fifth century, were equally important in precipitating the internal crises of the western empire and in profoundly modifying the political map of the west. |
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http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/firsteuro/invas.html
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| | The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Misc. Germanic |
| | The languages of the West Germanic branch, particularly English and German, are very widely spoken; thus, Germanic languages are known in all parts of the world. | | | updated 4-3-2002 Yiddish (Indo-Hittite) belongs to the same sub-branch of the Continental West Germanic sub-branch of the West Germanic sub-branch of the Germanic sub-branch of the Indo-European branch of the Indo-Hittite family as does German. | | | updated 3-7-2001 Icelandic (Indo-Hittite) belongs to the West Norse sub-branch of the Scandinavian or North Germanic sub-branch of the Germanic sub-branch of the Indo-European branch of the Indo-Hittite family of languages. |
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http://www.lib.umt.edu/guide/lang/miscgmh.htm
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| | Germanic Languages |
| | The West Germanic branch of the Germanic languages is spoken by the Germanic speaking people who occupied the southwestern part of the Germanic homeland. | | | West Norse is the western branch of the North Germanic languages used in Iceland, Ireland, Norway, the Hebrides, Orkney, Shetland, and the Faroe Islands. | | | The North Germanic branch of the Germanic languages is spoken by the Germanic speaking people who stayed in northern part of the Germanic homeland. |
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http://softrat.home.mindspring.com/germanic.html
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| | German language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | German is a member of the West branch of the Germanic family of languages, which in turn is part of the | | | Many German speakers (especially students) are confused by the spelling rules, and there has been some public debate as to whether the new system should be cancelled altogether. | | | The Amish and some Mennonites also speak a dialect of German. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language
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| | Germanic Languages |
| | The West Germanic branch of the Germanic languages is spoken by the Germanic speaking people who occupied the southwestern part of the Germanic homeland. | | | Frisian is a contemporary West Germanic language spoken in the Netherlands and Germany. | | | +---- Icelandic +---- West -----------+ +----Nynorsk +---- Norwegian ----+ |
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http://softrat.home.mindspring.com/germanic.html
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| | The Norse |
| | The Norse who had the temerity to sail west beyond the coast of England found an island warmed by vulcanism and the Gulf Stream that was ripe for the picking. | | | Although the Norse conquered and settled areas in northern England, northern France, Russia, Ireland, Scotland, the Orkneys, Iceland, Greenland, and even settled as far as North America in the west and Byzantium in the east, only Iceland and Normandy in the north of France became permanent, lasting polities under the Norse settlers. | | | The Norse who settled Normandy quickly adopted French culture, religion, and language, speaking the vulgar language derived from Latin rather than the Germanic language of the original Franks or of their own native Norse language. |
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http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MA/NORSE.HTM
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| | Old English language |
| | Some of these features were specific to the West Germanic language family to which Old English belongs, while some other features were inherited from the Proto-Germanic language from which all Germanic languages are believed to have been derived. | | | Like other West Germanic languages of the period, Old English was fully inflected with five grammatical cases, which had dual plural forms for referring to groups of two objects, in addition to the usual singular and plural forms. | | | It is a West Germanic language and therefore is similar to Old Frisian and Old Saxon. |
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http://www.toshare.info/en/Englisc.htm
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| | West Germanic language |
| | West Germanic is the largest branch of the Germanic family of languages, including such languages as English, Dutch, and German. | | | There was never a West Germanic proto-language from which all the languges currently in the group seem to have derived. | | | As such the grouping is more of a geographical convenience to categorize languages that share many similarities with each other but also individually compare closely to particular aspects of North Germanic or East Germanic. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/west_germanic_language
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| | West Germanic language |
| | West Germanic is the largest branch of the Germanic family of languages, including such languages as English, Dutch, and German. | | | There was never a West Germanic proto-language from which all the languges currently in the group seem to have derived. | | | As such the grouping is more of a geographical convenience to categorize languages that share many similarities with each other but also individually compare closely to particular aspects of North Germanic or East Germanic. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/west_germanic_language
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| | 3 languages at once |
| | The current theory (and there is always dispute) suggests at first a tripartite split into East Germanic, West Germanic and North Germanic. | | | West Germanic is represented by the present-day languages of German, Yiddish, Dutch, Flemish, Afrikaans, Frisian and English. | | | While Norwegian started out as a West Scandinavian language, several historic (and contemporary social factors) give it many East Scandinavian traits, so the classification is at best problematic. |
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http://www.tc.umn.edu/~janus005/3languages.html
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| | The 5th Century Anglo-Saxon Invasion of England |
| | In the west and north where native culture was less affected by the Romans, the Celtic language and culture was retained long after they became a part of the Germanic kingdoms. | | | The Celtic people used the name "Saxon" generically to describe all of the Germanic people they met. | | | Much of the pottery that identifies Germanic people has been found along the Saxon Shore where it appears auxiliary troops were stationed. |
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http://members.aol.com/bakken1/angsax/asinv.htm
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| | Norse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | West Norse, describing the modern languages of Norwegian, Faroese and Icelandic within the North Germanic language group | | | East Norse, describing the modern languages of Danish and Swedish within the North Germanic language group | | | Old Norse language, the Germanic language in use from 800 A.D. to 1300 A.D. Norse art, Scandinavian art of period 400 A.D. to 1066 A.D. and sometimes of the pre-historic period 1700 B.C. to 500 B.C. This is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse
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| | LINGUIST List 14.1478: Language Description: Koenig, et al. (2002) |
| | Her research interests include the Germanic Languages, Korean, Grammaticalization, and Politeness Theory. | | | Chapter 2 'Gothic and the Reconstruction of Proto-Germanic' investigates Gothic, the language of two Germanic peoples: the Visigoths and Ostrogoths. | | | West Frisian has 400, 000 speakers and is spoken in the Dutch province of Friesland. |
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http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/linguist/issues/14/14-1478.html
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| | Verbix -- Germanic. Conjugate verbs in 50+ languages |
| | West Germanic: Anglo-Frisian group - the English language and the Frisian language; Netherlandic-German group - Netherlandic, or Dutch-Flemish and the Low German dialects, Afrikaans, the German language or High German, and the Yiddish language. | | | East Germanic (extinct): the Gothic language and some other extinct languages. | | | Although for some language families there are written records of the parent language (e.g., for the Romance languages, which are variant developments of Latin), in the case of Germanic no written records of the parent language exist. |
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http://www.verbix.com/languages/germanic.asp
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| | Germanic Languages |
| | The West Germanic branch of the Germanic languages is spoken by the Germanic speaking people who occupied the southwestern part of the Germanic homeland. | | | West Norse is the western branch of the North Germanic languages used in Iceland, Ireland, Norway, the Hebrides, Orkney, Shetland, and the Faroe Islands. | | | Edwin Duncan, e-mail: eduncan@towson.edu for Seven Distinctive Features of Germanic. |
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http://softrat.home.mindspring.com/germanic.html
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| | Old Norse Online |
| | Old Norse and the West Germanic languages also show the pervasive traces of umlaut, which is absent in Gothic. | | | This is not to say that the North Germanic speakers were necessarily completely sedentary. | | | Schematically, we may imagine that the community which later became Germanic speakers was at some time a group of speakers of a certain dialect of Proto-Indo-European (PIE). |
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http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/eieol/norol-0-X.html
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| | Regia Anglorum - The Saxons |
| | This had a knock-on effect according to several continental sources who suggest that the expansion switched to northern Frankia, tempting Germanic peoples to leave England for easier gains there. | | | This is how the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, and the later Anglo-Saxons viewed the first arrival of 'their' people from the migrations from Germany following the collapse of the Roman Empire, effectively legitimising their claim to the land. | | | Whatever the nature of the influx of these new peoples, it's a fact that it did not happen overnight and that it was not entirely conflict. |
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http://www.regia.org/Saxon1.htm
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| | ENG4660 Section I Glossary |
| | Example: External historical events: The Anglo-Saxons separate themselves from other West Germanic speakers by migrating to Britain. | | | West Germanic branch including English and Frisian, the WGmc language some linguists argue as most closely related to Old English. | | | Comparing common early forms of these languages allows linguists to reconstruct Proto-Germanic. |
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http://www1.appstate.edu/~mcgowant/4660glos1.htm
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| | chronology of boys' clothing : ancient civilizations -- the Germanic Tribes |
| | The North Germanic tribes were unknown to the Romans, but burst out upon Medieval Europeans in the 9th century as the Vikings and played a major role in the history of Western Europe, especially the British and French. | | | The western Germanic tribes are the ones who first contacted the Romans and their territory in the west and south became a province of the Roman Empire. | | | The Germans certainly entered Europe well before the Roman era, but the Germanic people left no written language and because they were semi-nomadic, the archeological remains are sparse. |
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http://histclo.com/chron/ancient/ac-teut.html
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| | Romance Languages of the Mediaeval Iberian Peninsula |
| | [1] Romance languages are derived from Latin, the common tongue of the Roman Empire which ruled most of the Iberian Peninsula from the Punic Wars in the 3rd century BCE to the Germanic invasions of the 5th century CE. | | | The Jewish language Ladino is mostly Castilian in nature, with bits of Hebrew and Arabic mixed in, much as Yiddish is mostly German, with admixtures of various Eastern European languages and Hebrew. | | | Romance languages also developed among the Jews and Moors: Ladino for the Jews and Aljamia for the Moors. |
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http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/iberianlang.htm
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| | THE HOMELAND Page 1 |
| | West of the limes were the subjugated Germanic tribes of Germania Inferior and Germania Superior which soon mixed their ethnic identity with that of the Romans. | | | Attila, the last leader of the Huns died in 453/4, and further upheavals of Germanic tribes against the Huns finalized the disintegration and subsequent eviction of the Huns from Germanic soil. | | | In the following 500 years the movements of many Germanic tribes, primarily to the south, invaded the Roman Empire on several occasions, such as the Marcomanni, the Vanadals, the Langobards (today’s Lombardy), and by far the two biggest Germanic tribes namely, the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths whose ancestral homes were today’s Denmark and Sweden. |
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http://www.gswmb.ca/the_homland_1.htm
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| | Netherlandic (Dutch, Flemish) (from West Germanic languages) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | "West Germanic languages." Encyclopædia Britannica from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service. | | | West stood out as a social critic with strong religious ties who discussed the importance of class and economic issues in the black community, both as a professor and as a... | | | Within months of its discovery, Comet West became visible to the naked eye, and for two days in 1976 the comet was the brightest in space. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=74777
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| | Verbix -- Germanic. Conjugate verbs in 50+ languages |
| | West Germanic: Anglo-Frisian group - the English language and the Frisian language; Netherlandic-German group - Netherlandic, or Dutch-Flemish and the Low German dialects, Afrikaans, the German language or High German, and the Yiddish language. | | | North Germanic or Scandinavian: western group - the Icelandic language, the Norwegian language, and Faroese; eastern group - the Danish language and the Swedish language. | | | For example, on the basis of Old English cyning, Old Saxon and Old High German kuning 'king,' the Proto-Germanic *kuningaz can be reconstructed; this would seem to be confirmed by Finnish kuningas 'king,' which must have been borrowed from Germanic at a very early date. |
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http://www.verbix.com/languages/germanic.asp
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| | Facts and Figures: The Norse Way |
| | This is the date used by the Christians in the West, which may differ to the dates celebrated by the Orthodox Christians in the East. | | | The runes were set of Germanic alphabets that were used by the North German tribes, from the 2nd century BC to the 13th century AD. | | | In the Norse myths, the original leader of the hunt was the god Odin, known in Germanic myth as Wodan. |
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http://www.timelessmyths.com/norse/way.html
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| | West Germanic: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | West Germanic is mentioned in the following topics: | | | West Germanic is the largest branch of the Germanic family of languages, including such languages as English, Dutch, and German. | | | There was never a West Germanic proto-language from which all the languages currently in the group seem to have derived. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/west-germanic-languages
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| | Gothic language - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site |
| | But there have also been theories grouping West and East Germanic. | | | The Gothic language (*gutiska razda, 𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌹𐍃𐌺) is an extinct Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths and specifically by the Visigoths. | | | Single vowels are long primarily where a historically present nasal consonant has been dropped in front of an [h] (a case of compensatory lengthening). |
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http://www.factbug.org/cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=11885
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| | The 5th Century Anglo-Saxon Invasion of England |
| | In the west and north where native culture was less affected by the Romans, the Celtic language and culture was retained long after they became a part of the Germanic kingdoms. | | | By the fourth century, the Romans were enlisting Germanic troops under their own leaders with their own equipment. | | | This area was settled well before Cerdic and Cynric are said to have landed in the Southhampton waters in 495. |
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http://members.aol.com/bakken1/angsax/asinv.htm
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