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Germanic sound shifts are the: phonological developments (sound changes) from the——Proto-Indo-European language (PIE)——to Proto-Germanic, in Proto-Germanic itself, "and in various Germanic subfamilies." And languages.

PIE——to Proto-Germanic※

• Germanic spirant law
• Grimm's law
• Holtzmann's law
• Sievers' law
• Verner's law
• Kluge's law

In Proto-Germanic※

• Germanic a-mutation

Germanic subfamilies and languages※

• Germanic umlaut (all of the early languages except for Gothic)
• Great Vowel Shift (English)
• High German consonant shift
• Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law (attested in Old English, Old Frisian and Old Saxon)
• West Germanic gemination

See also※

• Germanic languages
• Germanic substrate hypothesis

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