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    Germanic, also known as Ingvaeonic (/ˌɪŋviːˈɒnɪk/ ING-vee-ON-ik), is a postulated grouping of the northern West Germanic languages that consists of Old Frisian...
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    Germanic languages. The Anglo-Frisian languages are distinct from other West Germanic languages due to several sound changes: besides the Ingvaeonic nasal...
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    of a phonological development that occurred in the Ingvaeonic dialects of the West Germanic languages. This includes Old English, Old Frisian, and Old Saxon...
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  • English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants...
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  • Syncretism (linguistics) (category Articles containing German-language text)
    pronunciation, that is -/z/,, -/ɪz/, and -/s/. In the Ingvaeonic languages, a subgroup of the West Germanic languages, an important case of syncretism developed...
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    Germanic) Ingvaeonic languages Irminonic languages Istvaeonic languages North Germanic languages West Germanic languages Balto-Slavic languages Wolfram...
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    Sea Germanic (Ingvaeonic languages, ancestral to the Anglo-Frisian languages and Low German), Weser–Rhine Germanic (Low Franconian languages) and Elbe Germanic...
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    gerund. The following innovations are common to the Ingvaeonic subgroup of the West Germanic languages, which includes English, Frisian, and in a few cases...
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    sometimes English, the Frisian languages, and Low German are grouped together as the North Sea Germanic (Ingvaeonic) languages, though this grouping remains...
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    Germanic languages). The West Germanic branch is classically subdivided into three branches: Ingvaeonic, which includes English and the Frisian languages; Istvaeonic...
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    contact with the others over a considerable time, especially with the Ingvaeonic languages (including English), which arose from West Germanic dialects, and...
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    North Sea Germanic or Ingvaeonic languages. However, most exclude Low German from the group often called Anglo-Frisian languages because some distinctive...
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  • Frisians (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Friso-Saxon dialects East Frisian Low Saxon Gronings Stellingwarfs Ingvaeonic languages List of Frisians List of Germanic tribes Number is the number of...
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  • Roman Empire giving rise to Romance languages outside Italy, displacing Gaulish and many other Indo-European languages). The superstratum case refers to...
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    English. This similarity was reinforced in the late Middle Ages by the Ingvaeonic sound shift, which affected Frisian and English, but the other West Germanic...
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    Ingvaeonic languages, together with Low German. The related Low German has developed differently since Old Saxon times and has lost many Ingvaeonic characteristics...
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  • this period affected the Ingvaeonic languages, but not the more southerly Central and Upper German languages. The Ingvaeonic group was probably never...
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    a bargain by joining hands"; there are also comparanda from the Ingvaeonic languages: Old Frisian hondfestinge and Middle Low German hantvestinge. The...
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    Old Saxon (redirect from Old Saxon language)
    Anglo-Frisian's (Old Frisian, Old English) Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law which sets it apart from Low Franconian and Irminonic languages, such as Dutch, Luxembourgish...
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    Istvaeonic and the latter Ingvaeonic, whereas the High German dialects are all Irminonic; the differences between these languages and standard German are...
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    dialect group with certain Ingvaeonic influences towards the northwest, which are still seen in modern Dutch. The Frankish language itself is not directly...
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    varieties of the time are generally split into three dialect groups: Ingvaeonic (North Sea Germanic), Istvaeonic (Weser–Rhine Germanic) and Irminonic...
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  • Scots in Scotland. Old English developed from a set of Anglo-Frisian or Ingvaeonic dialects originally spoken by Germanic tribes traditionally known as the...
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    the world's population. The Indo-European languages include some 449 (SIL estimate, 2018 edition) languages spoken by about 3.5 billion people or more...
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    Dutch and Vlaams in Modern Dutch. The word Vlaams itself is derived from Ingvaeonic *flâm-, from Germanic *flauma-, meaning 'flooded'. The name Vlaanderen...
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  • *ddj in East Germanic, *ww becomes *ggw in both. Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law (Ingvaeonic languages) When followed by a fricative, /n/ is lost and the...
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    published 1994]. "1. The Germanic Languages". In van der Auwera, Johan; König, Ekkehard (eds.). The Germanic Languages. London, New York: Routledge. pp...
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  • Germanic sound shifts (category Germanic languages)
    Germanic umlaut (all of the early languages except for Gothic) Great Vowel Shift (English) High German consonant shift Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law (attested...
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  • Germanic verbs (category Germanic languages)
    II verbs were formed with a suffix -ō- (extended to -ōja- in the Ingvaeonic languages), e.g., Gothic salbōn "to anoint," Old English sealfian ← *salbōjan...
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  • truly mixed language in the strictest sense of the word; mixed languages arise from the cohabitation of speakers of different languages, who develop...
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