What makes a language Germanic?
>>18361188That it can be traced to proto-Germanic.
>>18361188Being descended from Proto-Germanic.
>>18361188same thing that classifies Celtic, Slavic, Romance, or Hellenic languages. It comes from a Proto-Germanic language which stems from Indo-European with the other braches mentioned above, along with evolving into the Germanic languages and branches today.
Etruscans were Germanic.