Quote Originally Posted by A Terribly Harmful Name View Post
I am interested in knowing if there has been any academic insight or effort inside the EB team to make a correspondent effort to the pre-Proto-Germanic in the game. Can Getic be reliably reconstructed in any similar form, say, in a highly theoretical situation?
I'm not an expert by any means on this subject, but what I've read makes it clear that nothing like Proto-Germanic can be recreated for the Getic/Dacian/Thracian language(s) because the descendants of those languages died out long ago, well before they could be recorded in writing (at least in any substantial way; I know that we have Thracian inscriptions of some length, but I don't think that they have been deciphered with any degree of success yet). Pretty much all we have are a handful of words from various literary sources and toponyms, which is certainly not enough to write even a primitive grammar. It is enough, however, to recreate some unit names, which is what you got in EB.