Elbe Germanic: Difference between revisions

'''[[Elbe]] Germanic''', also called '''Irminonic''' or '''Erminonic''',<ref name="Fulk2018">{{cite book|author=R.D. Fulk|title=A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GO1oDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA17|date=15 September 2018|publisher=John Benjamins Publishing Company|isbn=978-90-272-6313-1|pages=17f}}</ref> is a term introduced by the German linguist [[Friedrich Maurer (linguist)|Friedrich Maurer]] (1898–1984) in his book, ''Nordgermanen und Alemanen'', to describe the unattested [[proto-language]], or dialectal grouping, ancestral to the later [[Lombardic language|Lombardic]], [[Alemannic German|Alemannic]], [[Bavarian language|Bavarian]] and [[Thuringian dialect|Thuringian]] dialects.{{Citation needed|date=September 2024|reason=Thuringian is not mentioned in the graph or the cited book}} During [[late antiquity]] and the [[Middle Ages]], its supposed descendants had a profound influence on the neighboring [[West Central German]] dialects and, later, in the form of [[Standard German]], on the [[German language]] as a whole.<ref>[[Friedrich Maurer (linguist)|Friedrich Maurer]] (1942) ''Nordgermanen und Alemannen: Studien zur germanische und frühdeutschen Sprachgeschichte, Stammes- und Volkskunde'', Strasbourg: Hünenburg.</ref>