What is Relatedness?

[Rick Mc Callister]

What is the basis of this tree in Germanic?

	How secure is East Germanic?
	Why is it not just an early form of N. Germanic?
i.e. what are the points that distinguish it?
	Is there any merit to the idea that there was a separate branch of
Germanic including Anglian, Jutish and pre-Frisian, intermediate between N
& W Germanic, andf that modern English and Frisian are the result of a
fusion between this and W Lowland Germanic?

[snip]

>             PGmc
>            /    \
>        PNWGmc    \
>        /   \      \
>      WGmc  NGmc   EGmc

[snip]

Rick Mc Callister
W-1634
Mississippi University for Women
Columbus MS 39701