'''Proto-Germânico''', ou '''germânico comum''', como é às vezes denominado, é a [[proto-língua]] ancestral comum hipotética de todas as [[língas germânicas]] tais como o moderno [[inglês]], [[holandês]], [[alemão]], [[dinamarquês]], [[norueguês]], [[islandês]], [[faroenseLíngua feroesa]] e [[sueco]]. {{em tradução}} <!-- <ref>Another, less common name used in English-language literature by a few noteworthy scholars is '''[[Germanic Parent Language|(Primitive) Germanic Parent Language]]'''. For example, see {{cite book |first=Leonard |last=Bloomfield |authorlink=Leonard Bloomfield |title=Language |publisher=The University of Chicago Press | city=Chicago and London |year=1984 | is=ISBN 0-226-06067-5 |pages=298–299}}</ref> The Proto-Germanic language is not directly attested by any surviving texts but has been [[Linguistic reconstruction|reconstructed]] using the [[comparative method]]. However, a few surviving inscriptions in a [[runic script]] from [[Scandinavia]] dated to c. 200 are thought to represent a stage of [[Proto-Norse language|Proto-Norse]] or, according to [[Bernard Comrie]], [[Late Common Germanic]] immediately following the "Proto-Germanic" stage.<ref name="Comrie">{{cite book|last=Comrie|first=Bernard (editor)|authorlink=Bernard Comrie |title=The World's Major Languages|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York, New York|year=1987|isbn=0-19-506511-5|pages=69–70}}</ref>
Proto-Germanic is itself descended from [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]] (PIE).
