NorseProtoNorse
NorseProtoNorse is a nonstandard term that some authors use to refer to the early stage of the Norse language lineage. In established linguistics, the standard label is Proto-Norse, the reconstructed ancestor of the North Germanic languages that gave rise to Old Norse and its dialects. The use of NorseProtoNorse is generally avoided in formal scholarship, but it appears in some overview discussions as a convenient descriptor.
Proto-Norse is believed to have been spoken in Scandinavia and parts of the Jutland peninsula from roughly
Linguistically, Proto-Norse is reconstructed to share core features with Proto-Germanic while exhibiting changes that differentiated the
From Proto-Norse, regional varieties developed into Old Norse, which subsequently diversified into Old Icelandic, Old Norwegian,
See also Proto-Germanic, Old Norse, Norse languages, Younger Futhark, runology.