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The northern varieties of the Low Germanic Languages , ( Low German , and Dutch ), together with English and Frisian , may all be classified as the North Sea Germanic or Ingvaeonic languages. Even in the distant past these languages seem to have been a collection of closely related dialects, sharing common innovations as the Ingvaeonic Nasal Spirant Law and continuously influencing each other, rather than diverging linearly from a common linguistic ancestor — a characteristic of West Germanic languages as a whole.

Other West Germanic proto-tribes were the Irminones and Istaevones .

Pliny c.80 AD in his ''Natural History'' (chapter IV, paragraph 99) lists the Ingaevones as one of the five German confederations. According to him they were made up of Cimbri , Teutons , and Chauci .

  • Ingwaz '' (Ing, Ingo, or Inguio), son of Mannus . Jacob Grimm , in his ''Teutonic Mythology'', and many others consider this Ing to have been originally identical to the vague Scandinavian Yngvi , eponymous ancestor of the Swedish royal house of the Yngling s. An Ingui is also listed in the Anglo-Saxon royalhouse of Bernicia. This is also the name given to the Viking era deity Freyr .


In Nennius we find ''Mannus'' corrupted to Alanus and ''Ingio''/''Inguio'', his son, to ''Neugio''. Here the three sons of Neugio are named as Boganus, Vandalus, and Saxo — from whom came the peoples of the Bogari, the Vandals , and the Saxons and Tarincgi.