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Mauer asserted that the cladistic [[tree model]], which was used ubiquitously in linguistics in the 19th and the early 20th centuries, was too inaccurate to describe the relation between the modern Germanic languages, especially those belonging to its Western branch. Rather than depicting [[Old English]], [[Old Dutch]], [[Old Saxon]], [[Old Frisian]] and [[Old High German]] to have simply 'branched off' a single common 'Proto-West Germanic', which many previous linguists equated to "Old German / Urdeutsch", he assumed that there had been much more distance between certain dialectal groupings and proto-languages.<ref>Johannes Hoops, Heinrich Beck, Dieter Geuenich, [[Heiko Steuer]]: Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde: Band 7; Walter de Gruyter, 1989, {{ISBN|9783110114454}} (pp 113–114).</ref>
[[Image:Einteilung der Germanen nach Maurer.de.svg|thumb|center|500px|Maurer's classification of Germanic dialects]]
==See also==
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