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"Northwest Germanic" is by no means an established or generally accepted working scheme or theory. The way it positions North Germanic and West Germanic together, and against East Germanic, is rather in opposition to the more accepted view that North Germanic and East Germanic are more closely related (Schwarz used "Gotho-Scandinavian) and the opposite pole to some sort of Continental Germanic. I hope nobody will ignore this fact in order to advocate truth taken for granted, or even deny some kind of challenge here. Like always, let the reader decide. Rokus01 20:09, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
Something that puzzles me is how Scandinavian languages are assumed on the one hand to have passed through a stage of accelerated evolution just before the Viking expansion, and how on the other hand this "accelerated evolution" miss all unambiguous evidence: even the early runic inscriptions that once were considered evidence to such a "very similar to continental germanic, pre-nordic stage" are now theorized to represent rather some kind of ancient latin-influenced West-Germanic. To me, subgroupings based on location only serve to reflect a language continuum of an unknown, maybe even unfathomable time-depth. Rokus01 ( talk) 18:52, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
"It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with North Sea Germanic." I disagree because North Sea Germanic refers to a grouping of certain West Germanic languages, which has nothing to do with this category, which is a grouping of all West Germanic languages with North Germanic languages. This article is related to the article on Proto-Norse, but it discusses a broader concept than Proto-Norse. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fairedit ( talk • contribs) 07:35, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
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"Northwest Germanic" is by no means an established or generally accepted working scheme or theory. The way it positions North Germanic and West Germanic together, and against East Germanic, is rather in opposition to the more accepted view that North Germanic and East Germanic are more closely related (Schwarz used "Gotho-Scandinavian) and the opposite pole to some sort of Continental Germanic. I hope nobody will ignore this fact in order to advocate truth taken for granted, or even deny some kind of challenge here. Like always, let the reader decide. Rokus01 20:09, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
Something that puzzles me is how Scandinavian languages are assumed on the one hand to have passed through a stage of accelerated evolution just before the Viking expansion, and how on the other hand this "accelerated evolution" miss all unambiguous evidence: even the early runic inscriptions that once were considered evidence to such a "very similar to continental germanic, pre-nordic stage" are now theorized to represent rather some kind of ancient latin-influenced West-Germanic. To me, subgroupings based on location only serve to reflect a language continuum of an unknown, maybe even unfathomable time-depth. Rokus01 ( talk) 18:52, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
"It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with North Sea Germanic." I disagree because North Sea Germanic refers to a grouping of certain West Germanic languages, which has nothing to do with this category, which is a grouping of all West Germanic languages with North Germanic languages. This article is related to the article on Proto-Norse, but it discusses a broader concept than Proto-Norse. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fairedit ( talk • contribs) 07:35, 15 June 2011 (UTC)