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  1. 3 days ago · 2.1 Main Typological Features and Parts of Speech. Indo-European languages of the most archaic type (best represented by Ancient Greek and the two Old Indo-Iranian languages Old Indic—in particular the Vedic variety—and Avestan) have rich fusional morphologies with predominant use of suffixation and ablaut (i.e., alternation involving vowels or vowel-sonorant sequences) as formal devices ...

  2. Jun 17, 2024 · The Celtic languages ( / ˈkɛltɪk / KEL-tik) are a group of related languages descended from Proto-Celtic. They form a branch of the Indo-European language family. [1] The term "Celtic" was first used to describe this language group by Edward Lhuyd in 1707, [2] following Paul-Yves Pezron, who made the explicit link between the Celts described ...

  3. 2 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. Proto-Italic descended from the earlier Proto-Indo-European language. [1]

  4. Jun 4, 2024 · The roots of Creole languages can be traced back to the era of colonialism, during which oppressive systems and coerced labor provided fertile ground for linguistic innovation. Most Creole languages are a fusion of European colonial languages, such as English, French, Spanish, and Dutch, interwoven with elements of local indigenous languages.

  5. 2 days ago · Modern Celtic languages include Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Scottish Gaelic, Irish and Manx. Germanic (from Proto-Germanic), earliest attestations in runic inscriptions from around the 2nd century AD, earliest coherent texts in Gothic, 4th century AD. Old English manuscript tradition from about the 8th century AD.

  6. 22 hours ago · Since the infancy of modern narratologies, the very notion of “narrative” has never been a consensual object of study. From their reputedly “classical” formalist and structuralist development to the huge diversification of the so-called “post-classical” phase and beyond, with the rise of cognitive theories and the impact of neuroscience, “the appropriation of narratological ...

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  8. Jun 13, 2024 · Here are some words for valley, glen and related things that are found in some or all of the Celtic languages, and related words in other languages. Strath Croe. Words marked with a * are reconstructions.