The PEDIGREE of
First Speaker of West Germanic

     (some place High and Low German into a Continental clade exclusive of Anglo-Frisian)

     Born:  ca 300 BC

 "Child(ren)":       First Speaker of Old Low Germanic   ;   Old High German (begat Modern German : Cimbrian : Swiss : Yiddish etc.)   ;  poss.   First Speaker of Old Anglo-Frisian
 poss. "Partner(s)":       First Speaker of Old Low Germanic
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/-- First Speaker of Late Indo-Hellenic   +====> [ 53]
/-- First Speaker of Early Indo-Slavic (Satem Core)
/-- First Speaker of Late Indo-Slavic
/-- First Speaker of Proto-Baltic  (ca 3000 BC)
/   / or: some other source for Creole/Koine features of Germanic
/-- First Speaker of Proto-Germanic
| \  /-- First Speaker of Late Indo-European   +====> [ 51]
| | /-- prob.  First Speaker of Italo-Celtic
| | |  / or: Italic (q.v.)
| | /   / or: poss. Early Indo-Hellenic (q.v.)
| \-- First Speaker of pre-Germanic  (ca 3300 BC)
|  \ /-- prob.  First Speaker of Erteboelle   +====> [ 2]
|  | /   / OR: poss. First Speaker of Far-northern Berberish   +====> [ 45]
|  \-- First Speaker of Funnel-Beaker
/   \-- woman of ERTEBOELLE CULTURE   +====> [ 41]
/-- First Speaker of Early Common Germanic
/-- First Speaker of Late Common Germanic  (ca 600 BC)
| \  /-- First Speaker of Late Indo-European   +====> [ 51]
| |  /-- First Speaker of Italo-Celtic  (3500 BC)
| |  /   / (skip this generation?)
| |  /-- First Speaker of proto-Celtic  (2000? BC)
| | /-- First Speaker of Early Celtic  (1200? BC)
| | | \  /-- First Speaker of Proto West Boreafrasian   +====> [ 42]
| | | | /-- First Speaker of proto-Berber
| | | | /   / (skip this generation?)
| | | \-- Adstratum from Berberish
| | |  / or: poss. Senegambian of Atlantic-Congo
| | /   / OR: First Speaker of Vasconic   +====> [ 39]
/  \-- Speech loans from HALSTATT CULTURE
- First Speaker of West Germanic
\ 
\-- prob.  La Tene Iron Age
\-- Iron Age in East Mediterranean  (1100? BC - ?)
\  /-- Copper Metallurgy Stage 4   +====> [ 3]
|  /-- Bronze Age in Anatolia
|  /  \-- Woman of the Late Copper Age   +====> [ 48]
| /-- Early Use of Iron
\-- Invention of Steel
\-- Increasing need for wood in construction and as fuel
 
 
  (poss.) ``Grandchildren:''       First Speaker of Northern Old French   ;   First Speaker of Old English   ;   First Speaker of Early Middle English   ;   First Speaker of Northern Old English   ;   Hengest VVIHTGILSING (King) of KENT
 

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