The PEDIGREE of
First Speaker of Early Middle English

     poss. aka Anglicized Norse

    External page: A strong case can be made that Middle English was a Norse language that replaced Old English

 "Child(ren)":       First Speaker of Francified Middle English
 poss. "Partner(s)":       First Speaker of Norman French, Borrowings from
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/-- First Speaker of Proto-Baltic   +====> [ 56]
/   / or: some other source for Creole/Koine features of Germanic
/-- First Speaker of Proto-Germanic
/  \-- First Speaker of pre-Germanic   +====> [ 53]
/-- First Speaker of Early Common Germanic
/-- First Speaker of Late Common Germanic
/  \-- Speech loans from HALSTATT CULTURE   +====> [ 1]
/-- First Speaker of West Germanic  (ca 300 BC)
| \-- prob.  La Tene Iron Age
/   \-- Iron Age in East Mediterranean   +====> [ 52]
/-- First Speaker of Old Low Germanic  (ca 100 BC)
/   / (skip this generation?)
/-- First Speaker of Old Anglo-Frisian  (ca 100)
/-- First Speaker of Old English
/  
- First Speaker of Early Middle English
\  /-- First Speaker of Early Common Germanic   +====> [ 58]
|  /-- First Speaker of Late Common Germanic
|  /  \-- Speech loans from HALSTATT CULTURE   +====> [ 1]
|  /-- First Speaker of West Germanic  (ca 300 BC)
|  /  \-- prob.  La Tene Iron Age   +====> [ 53]
|  /-- First Speaker of Old Low Germanic  (ca 100 BC)
|  /   / (skip this generation?)
|  /-- First Speaker of Old Anglo-Frisian  (ca 100)
| /-- First Speaker of Old English
\-- First Speaker of Northern Old English
\ / or: Early Anglicized Norse
|  /-- First Speaker of Late Indo-Slavic   +====> [ 55]
|  /-- First Speaker of Proto-Baltic
|  /   / or: some other source for Creole/Koine features of Germanic
|  /-- First Speaker of Proto-Germanic
|  /  \-- First Speaker of pre-Germanic   +====> [ 53]
|  /-- First Speaker of Early Common Germanic
| /-- First Speaker of Late Common Germanic  (ca 600 BC)
| | \  /-- First Speaker of proto-Celtic   +====> [ 53]
| | | /-- First Speaker of Early Celtic  (1200? BC)
| | | | \-- Adstratum from Berberish   +====> [ 44]
| | | |  / or: poss. Senegambian of Atlantic-Congo
| | | /   / OR: First Speaker of Vasconic   +====> [ 39]
| /  \-- Speech loans from HALSTATT CULTURE
\-- First Speaker of Old Norse (North Germanic)
 
 
  ``1-Great Grandchild:''       First Speaker of Modern English
 

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