Germanic substrate hypothesis
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The Germanic substrate hypothesis attempts to explain the purportedly distinctive nature of the Germanic languages within the context of the Indo-European languages. Based on the elements of Common Germanic vocabulary and syntax which do not seem to have cognates in other Indo-European languages, it claims that Proto-Germanic may have been either a creole or a contact language that subsumed a non-Indo-European substrate language, or a hybrid of two quite different Indo-European languages, mixing the centum and satem types.
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See also
- Ancient Belgian language
- Haplogroup I-M170
- Pitted Ware culture
- Scandinavian Hunter-Gatherer
- Funnelbeaker culture
- Germanic parent language
- Goidelic substrate hypothesis
- Language shift
- Neolithic Europe
- Nordwestblock
- Old European hydronymy
- Pre-Indo-European languages
- Theo Vennemann
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