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  • proper noun North Sea Germanic, a postulated grouping of the West Germanic languages that comprises Old Frisian, Old English and Old Saxon.

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Examples

  • What it instead indicates is that there were three "nodes", three centers of change, three wave sources, in the West Germanic dialect continuum: Ingvaeonic, Franconian, and German.

    The PIE and Pre-PIE pronominal system from the perspective of a wave model 2009

  • Germans will therefore ridiculously refer to Low German as a dialect of High German, even though they're not even particularly closely related (Low German is Ingvaeonic, and more closely related to English than it is High German).

    Right Wing Nation 2009

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