By Elmer H. Antonsen
ISBN-10: 3110174626
ISBN-13: 9783110174625
The older runic inscriptions (ca. advert one hundred fifty - 450) signify the earliest attestation of any Germanic language. The shut courting of those inscriptions to the archaic Mediterranean writing traditions is verified throughout the linguistic and orthographic research offered the following. the extreme significance of those inscriptions for a formal knowing of the prehistory and early heritage of the present-day Germanic languages, together with English, turns into abundantly transparent as soon as the accu-mulation of unfounded claims of older mythological and cultic reviews is cleared away.
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We can see how the late Proto-Indo-European system in Table 7 developed into the early Proto-Germanic system we just presented in Table 6, and we can also better understand how the Proto-Germanic system developed into the systems attested in the early recorded Germanic languages. All of the Late Proto-Germanic 23 vocalic changes from late Proto-Indo-European to early Proto-Germanic were spontaneous, that is they occurred in all environments. On the other hand, all of the vocalic changes from early to late ProtoGermanic were conditioned (see below).
Past part: fangans gi-fangan gi-fanganflngenn fangen 'caught'< PG */fanganaz/ Burgundian Hanha(valdus), Möjbro hahai < /hanh-a-7 'steed)'< PG */hanh-a-/. Since the new long vowel shows up in Old English as a long /o/, reflecting the normal pre-English change of short /a/ > /o/ before a nasal with compensatory lengthening upon the loss of the nasal, we can conclude that the late Proto-Germanic vowel was actually a nasalized long [ä], which was the phonetic realization of the phonemic sequence /an/ before /h/; cf.
First of all (and most importantly), they do not take into consideration the basic fact that not all the inscriptions in the older fujjark are written in the same language, and secondly, the terms tell us nothing about the historical position of the language in question, which was the fundamental reason for reevaluating the language of the inscriptions in the first place. , Gothic) and to locate the general area in which it was spoken. 8. North west Germanic: Language and inscriptions The term "Northwest Germanic" is not popular in Scandinavia.
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