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The Germans, however, had already in Neolithic times advanced beyond the unbroken area of settlement into Finland, the Baltic coastlands, central Germany, and along the Vistula into Poland and Galicia. In language the Germans separated (through the first phonetic changes) about 1000 B.C. from the other peoples of Indo-European speech. Between 120 B.C. and A.D. 600 German tribes spread over the whole of central, west, and south Europe. In language the Germanic tribes separated from one another in the fourth century A.D.