There are different classifications of the languages but as far as we deal with the history of the language we will consider genealogical classification. It is based on the conception that all the languages
can be classified according to their origin.
There are different points of view on the problem of language origin. Some scholars try to prove that there existed one universal language from which all the other languages stem.
The theory of William Allman(1990):
Proto-Germanic Language
(one of the 12 groups of languages belonging to Indo-European family that stemmed from the common Indo-European Language)
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Indo-European Language
| 8 000 years ago
| Turkey
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Nostratic Language
| 14 000 years ago
| The Near East
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Proto-World Language
| 200 000 years ago
| Africa
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Modern classification of the Germanic Languages: