[Gene Eric]

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.

[Gene Eric]

Published in 2000.

The German and Dutch languages were graphed as having the same origination period as Old English (500-1000 AD)

[Gene Eric]

>> Hebrew In relation

                   Nostratic
               /       |      \
              /        |       \
             /         |        \
            /          |         \
     Afro-Asiatic   Dravidian   Eurasiatic
          |                          |
   Hebrew | Arabic               Indo European
                               /     |      \
                           Italic  Celtic  Germanic
                             |              /   |    \
                          French       German Dutch Old Eng.