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(linguistics) The early, undocumented ancestral language from which other Germanic languages developed, such as Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Frisian, English, German, Faroese, Icelandic, Yiddish, Norwegian and Swedish.

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/d͡ʒɜːˈmæn.ɪk/

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Japanese Meaning

未記録の初期ゲルマン諸語の祖先とされる言語。 / ゲルマン諸語の源流となった古代の言語。

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Linguists reconstruct aspects of Germanic, the early, undocumented ancestral language that later gave rise to English, German, and other related languages, by comparing shared sound changes and vocabulary.

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言語学者たちは、英語やドイツ語などに発展した初期の未記録の祖先言語である原始ゲルマン語の諸側面を、共通する音変化や語彙を比較することで再構築している。

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(linguistics) The group of Indo-European languages that developed from (Ur-)Germanic.

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