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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 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. On both geographic and chronological grounds, the languages.
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4 days ago · A variety of Paleo-Balkan languages besides Greek are spoken in Southern Europe, including Thracian, Dacian and Illyrian, and in Anatolia ( Phrygian ). Development of Prakrits across the northern Indian subcontinent, as well as migration of Indo-Aryan speakers to Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
- † indicates this branch of the language family is extinct
- Proto-Indo-European
- One of the world's primary language families
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.
- 50= (phylozone)
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.
May 17, 2024 · The Francoprovençal word nant (stream) comes from the same Proto-Celtic roots , as does the French place name Nanterre , the Irish word neimheadh (sanctuary, privilege of rank, holy thing), and the Breton word neved / neñved (sanctuary) . More details of words for Streams and Currents in Celtic languages.
May 7, 2024 · 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. In Hamp's view, Northwest Indo-Europeans are likely to have been the first inhabitants of Hallstatt with the Pre-Phrygians moving east and south to Anatolia in the same manner as the ...
