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Proto-Norse (also Proto-Scandinavian Primitive Norse Proto-Nordic Ancient Nordic Old Scandinavian Proto-North Germanic and North Proto-Germanic) was an Indo-European language spoken in Scandinavia that is thought to have evolved as a northern dialect of Proto-Germanic over the first centuries CE. It is the earliest stage of a characteristically North Germanic language and the language attested in the oldest Scandinavian Elder Futhark inscriptions spoken ca.