Nostratic (15,000 years ago)
Eurasiatic (10,000 years ago)
Indo European (5000 years ago)
Germanic (1 millennium BC)
Old English (500-1000 AD)
Modern English (1700 AD)
From Steven Pinker’s “Words and Rules”
Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Prof MIT.
Published in 2000.
The German and Dutch languages were graphed as having the same origination period as Old English (500-1000 AD)
Nostratic / | \ / | \ / | \ / | \ Afro-Asiatic Dravidian Eurasiatic | | Hebrew | Arabic Indo European / | \ Italic Celtic Germanic | / | \ French German Dutch Old Eng.