Pedigree: First Speaker of Northern Old English

The PEDIGREE of

First Speaker of Northern Old English

(the 'dialects' of Old English in the North were actually Anglicized Norse according to some scholars)

"Child(ren)": First Speaker of Early Middle English

poss. "Partner(s)": First Speaker of Old English Early Anglicized Norse

________	________	_______	_______	_______	_______	_______	_______	_______	_______
							/	-- 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 Northern Old English
\						/	-- First Speaker of Early Indo-Slavic (Satem Core) +			====> [ 54]
\|					/	-- 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
\|			\|	\	/	-- prob. First Speaker of Italo-Celtic +				====> [ 52]
\|			\|	\|	\|		/ or: Italic (q.v.)
\|			\|	\|	/		/ or: poss. Early Indo-Hellenic (q.v.)
\|			\|	\	-- First Speaker of pre-Germanic (ca 3300 BC)
\|			/		\	-- First Speaker of Funnel-Beaker +				====> [ 46]
\|		/	-- 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-Berber +				====> [ 43]
\|	\|	\|	\|	\|	/		/ (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 Old Norse (North Germanic)

(poss.) ``2-Great Grandchild:'' First Speaker of Modern English