
Episode 11: Germanic Ancestors
The History of English Podcast
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Early Germanic and Early Celtic Dialects of the Indo European Family Tree
Some linguists and historians believe that these tribes may have been the ancestors of the italic speakers of italy. Other experts believe the early italic and early celtic branches separated much later, perhaps as an offshoot of the early greek tribes who eventually settled into greece. It does appear that these three groups, the early greeks, the early latin speakers and the early celts all took a southward track along the danube. And around this same time frame, say around 31 hundred b c, we start to see the earliest egyptian civilization starting to emerge from farming settlements along the nile.
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