| _______ | _______ | _______ | ______ | ______ | ______ | ______ | ______ | ______ | ______ | ______ | ______ | _____ | ____ | ____ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| / | -- First Speaker of Early Indo-Slavic + | ====> [ 127] | ||||||||||||||
| / | -- First Speaker of Late Indo-Slavic | |||||||||||||||
| / | -- 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 + | ====> [ 126] | |||||||||||||
| / | -- First Speaker of Early Common Germanic | |||||||||||||||
| / | -- First Speaker of Late Common Germanic | |||||||||||||||
| | | \ | / | -- First Speaker of proto-Celtic + | ====> [ 126] | ||||||||||||
| | | | | / | -- First Speaker of Early Celtic (1200? BC) | |||||||||||||
| / | \ | -- Speech loans from Halstatt Culture | ||||||||||||||
| / | -- First Speaker of West Germanic (ca 300 BC) | |||||||||||||||
| | | \ | -- prob. La Tene Iron Age | ||||||||||||||
| | | \ | -- Iron Age in East Mediterranean | ||||||||||||||
| | | \ | / | -- Early Use of Iron + | ====> [ 123] | ||||||||||||
| | | \ | -- Invention of Steel | ||||||||||||||
| / | \ | -- Increasing need for wood in construction and as fuel | ||||||||||||||
| / | -- 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 | ||||||||||||||||