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3 days ago · Within the Indo-European family, the Celtic languages have sometimes been placed with the Italic languages in a common Italo-Celtic subfamily. This hypothesis fell somewhat out of favour after reexamination by American linguist Calvert Watkins in 1966. [62]
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4 days ago · The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some European languages of this family— English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch, and Spanish —have expanded through colonialism in the modern period and are now spoken across several ...
- † indicates this branch of the language family is extinct
- Proto-Indo-European
- One of the world's primary language families
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May 14, 2024 · Celtic languages, branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken throughout much of Western Europe in Roman and pre-Roman times and currently known chiefly in the British Isles and in the Brittany peninsula of northwestern France.
This explains why the Insular Celtic languages agree so much in morphology, while also explaining the Gaulo-Brythonic and Gaulo-Gaelic isoglosses we have. It would also explain Celtiberian fairly well as being a fringe group, and, if we push it farther, could even explain Italo-Celtic and possibly the connection with Germanic.
5 days ago · The Proto-Italic language is the ancestor of the Italic languages, most notably Latin and its descendants, the Romance languages. It is not directly attested in writing, but has been reconstructed to some degree through the comparative method .
- ca. 1000 BC
- Italic languages
May 7, 2024 · However, little is known about these eastern Mygdones, and no evidence of Phrygian language in that region has been found. Eric P. Hamp in his 2012 Indo-European family tree classified the Phrygian language together with Italo-Celtic as a member of a "Northwest Indo-European" group.
Apr 26, 2024 · Publisher: Oxford University Press Print Publication Date: 2003 Print ISBN-13: 9780195139778
