Germanic substrate hypothesis

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title: Germanic substrate hypothesis
text: The Germanic substrate hypothesis attempts to explain the purportedly distinctive nature of the Germanic languages within the context of the Indo-European languages. Based on the elements of Common Germanic vocabulary and syntax which do not seem to have cognates in other Indo-European languages, it claims that Proto-Germanic may have been either a creole or a contact language that subsumed a non-Indo-European substrate language, or a hybrid of two quite different Indo-European languages, mixing
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description: Hypothesis about the history of Germanic languages
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_substrate_hypothesis
date created: 2005-03-12T20:21:34Z
date modified: 2024-09-03T18:46:28Z
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