Claim: The Germanic peoples are an American group.
Evidence: The Germanic peoples -LRB- also called Teutonic , Suebian , or Gothic in older literature -RRB- are an Indo-European ethno-linguistic group of Northern European origin.
The Proto-Indo-Europeans were the prehistoric people of Eurasia who spoke Proto-Indo-European -LRB- PIE -RRB- , the ancestor of the Indo-European languages according to linguistic reconstruction.