Elbe Germanic

Elbe Germanic, also called Irminonic or Erminonic,[1] is a term introduced by the German linguist Friedrich Maurer (1898–1984) in his book, Nordgermanen und Alemanen, to describe the unattested proto-language, or dialectal grouping, ancestral to the later Lombardic, Alemannic, Bavarian and Thuringian dialects. During Late antiquity and the Middle Ages, its supposed descendants had a profound influence on the neighboring West Central German dialects and, later, in the form of Standard German, on the German language as a whole.[2]

Elbe Germanic
Irminonic, Erminonic
Ethnicity	Irminones
Extinct	Developed into High German dialects
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Elbe Germanic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
The distribution of the primary Germanic languages in Europe c. AD 1:   North Germanic   North Sea Germanic, or Ingvaeonic   Weser-Rhine Germanic, or Istvaeonic   Elbe Germanic, or Irminonic   East Germanic †