North Sea Germanic, also known as Ingvaeonic / ˌɪŋviːˈɒnɪk /, is a postulated grouping of the northern West Germanic languages that consists of Old Frisian, Old English, and Old Saxon, and their descendants.
North Sea Germanic, also known as Ingvaeonic / ˌɪŋviːˈɒnɪk /, is a group of West Germanic languages that were first spoken in what is now northern Germany, the Netherlands, and Denmark. They were also spread to the British Isles in the Migration Period. The languages were Old Frisian, Old English and Old Saxon.
North Sea Germanic (Ingvaeonic languages, ancestral to the Anglo-Frisian languages and Low German), Weser-Rhine Germanic ( Low Franconian languages ) and Elbe Germanic ( High German languages ).
Archaeological evidence suggests that the North Germanic tribes at the time constituted one of five main tribal groups among the Germanic peoples, the others being North Sea Germanic tribes (Frisians, Saxons and Angles), Weser-Rhine Germanic tribes (Hessians, Franks), Elbe Germanic tribes (Lombards, Alemanni, Bavarians) and Oder ...
The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France. An epeiric sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north.
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