Pedigree: First Speaker of Old English

The PEDIGREE of

First Speaker of Old English

poss. "Partner(s)": Wihtgils the JUTE ; First Speaker of Northern Old English ; First Speaker of Old Norse (North Germanic) ; (NN) of the JUTES ; Early Anglicized Norse

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								/	-- First Speaker of Early Indo-Slavic +	====> [ 53]
							/	-- First Speaker of Late Indo-Slavic
						/	-- First Speaker of Proto-Baltic
						/		\| or: some other source for Creole/Koine features of Germanic
					/	-- First Speaker of Proto-Germanic
					/	\	-- First Speaker of pre-Germanic +			====> [ 52]
				/	-- First Speaker of Early Common Germanic
			/	-- First Speaker of Late Common Germanic
			\|	\		/	-- First Speaker of proto-Celtic +			====> [ 52]
			\|	\|	/	-- First Speaker of Early Celtic (1200? BC)
			\|	\|	\|	\	-- Adstratum from Berberish +			====> [ 44]
			\|	\|	\|			\| or: poss. Senegambian of Atlantic-Congo
			\|	\|	/			\| OR: First Speaker of Vasconic +		====> [ 39]
			/	\	-- Speech loans from HALSTATT CULTURE
		/	-- First Speaker of West Germanic (ca 300 BC)
		\|	\	-- prob. La Tene Iron Age
		\|		\	-- Iron Age in East Mediterranean
		\|			\	/	-- Early Use of Iron +			====> [ 49]
		\|			\	-- Invention of Steel
		/				\	-- Increasing need for wood in construction and as fuel
	/	-- First Speaker of Old Low Germanic (ca 100 BC)
	/		\| (skip this generation?)
/	-- First Speaker of Old Anglo-Frisian (ca 100)
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- First Speaker of Old English