11-12-2023, 10:22 AM
Proto-Germanic reconstruction takes all languages into account. Like all linguistic reconstructions, it is constantly updated and made better. There is no truth in the claim that Scandinavian could somehow dominate or distort the reconstruction. And even if it did, the reconstruction itself is totally irrelevant for locating the language. The location is based on:
1. The first dialectal split after Late Proto-Germanic into Northwest Germanic and East Germanic, both spoken originally in Scandinavia.
2. Loanwords borrowed into Finnic and Saami before, during, and after Proto-Germanic.
Everybody just have to accept these results. It is futile, unscientific, and nearly trolling to play in a parallel universum, where these linguistic results do not exist.
1. The first dialectal split after Late Proto-Germanic into Northwest Germanic and East Germanic, both spoken originally in Scandinavia.
2. Loanwords borrowed into Finnic and Saami before, during, and after Proto-Germanic.
Everybody just have to accept these results. It is futile, unscientific, and nearly trolling to play in a parallel universum, where these linguistic results do not exist.
~ Per aspera ad hominem ~
Y-DNA: N-Z1936 >> CTS8565 >> BY22114 (Savonian)
mtDNA: H5a1e (Northern Fennoscandian)