The PEDIGREE of
First Speaker of Modern English
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/-- First Speaker of Early Common Germanic   +====> [ 58]
/-- First Speaker of Late Common Germanic
/  \-- Speech loans from HALSTATT CULTURE   +====> [ 1]
/-- First Speaker of West Germanic
/  \-- prob.  La Tene Iron Age   +====> [ 53]
/-- First Speaker of Old Low Germanic
/   / (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 West Germanic   +====> [ 60]
| |  /-- First Speaker of Old Low Germanic
| |  /   / (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 Early Common Germanic   +====> [ 58]
|  | /-- First Speaker of Late Common Germanic
|  | /  \-- Speech loans from HALSTATT CULTURE   +====> [ 1]
/   \-- First Speaker of Old Norse (North Germanic)
/-- First Speaker of Francified Middle English
| \  /-- First Speaker of Western Romance   +====> [ 59]
| |  /-- First Speaker of Gallo-Romance
| |  /-- First Speaker of Northern Gallo-Romance
| |  /-- First Speaker of Old French
| | /-- First Speaker of Northern Old French
| | | \  /-- First Speaker of West Germanic   +====> [ 60]
| | | | /-- First Speaker of Old Low Germanic
| | /  \-- First Speaker of Old Frankish, Borrowings from
/  \-- First Speaker of Norman French, Borrowings from
/-- First Speaker of Late Middle English
| \  /-- First Speaker of Romance   +====> [ 57]
| |  /-- First Speaker of Italo-Western
| |  /-- First Speaker of Western Romance
| |  /-- First Speaker of Gallo-Romance
| |  /-- First Speaker of Northern Gallo-Romance
| | /-- First Speaker of Old French
/  \-- First Speaker of Late Old French, Borrowings from
- First Speaker of Modern English
 

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