Welcome to the History of English Podcast, a podcast about the history of the English language.

This is episode 22, Early Germanic Grammar.

In this episode we're going to continue our look at the earliest Germanic language, specifically

we're going to focus on the grammar of the early Germanic tribes.

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So let's turn our attention to this episode.

Now last time we looked at some of the vocabulary of the early Germanic tribes at a time when

there was a common Germanic language, which was the ancestor of English and German and

the Scandinavian languages among others.

But how did they use those words?

In other words, what was their grammar like?

Well, a good place to start is with the original Indo-European language.

The Germanic languages evolved from that original Indo-European language, so the Germanic tribes

inherited their grammar from the first Indo-Europeans.

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