Elbe Germanic

Elbe Germanic
Irminonic, Erminonic, Alpine Germanic[1]
Ethnicity	Irminones
Geographic distribution	German-speaking Europe, United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Colonia Tovar
Linguistic classification	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Elbe Germanic
Proto-language	Proto-Elbe Germanic
Subdivisions	Upper German
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 †

Elbe Germanic, also called Irminonic or Erminonic,^[2] 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.^[3]