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- The family comprises twelve branches: Indic (including Sanskrit and its descendants), Iranian, Anatolian (including Hittite and other extinct languages), Armenian, Hellenic (Greek), Albanian (or Illyrian), Italic (including Latin and the Romance languages), Celtic, Tocharian (an extinct group from central Asia), Germanic (including English, German, Dutch, and the Scandinavian languages), Baltic, and Slavic (including Russian, Czech, Bulgarian, and Serbo-Croat).
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This book examines the Indo-European language family from the point of view of each of the ten main subgroups of Indo-European. While a systematic individual assessment of the subgroups is an indispensable first step towards a better understanding of the internal structure of the Indo-European family tree, it is also clear that there is a need ...
These four branches or subfamilies developed, over many centuries, from four prehistoric proto-languages, which themselves had evolved from the common Indo-European tongue. There has often been contact among the subfamilies, and none of them has been immune to external influence.
2.2 The History of Subgrouping . The recognition of subgroups of the Indo-European language family precedes the recognition of the language family itself. Reference Scaliger Scaliger (1610) was already able to recognise the Romance, Germanic and Slavic families of languages, matrices linguarum in his terms, from shared vocabulary (notoriously using the word for ‘god’ as a diagnostic), and ...
May 17, 2018 · The family comprises twelve branches: Indic (including Sanskrit and its descendants), Iranian, Anatolian (including Hittite and other extinct languages), Armenian, Hellenic (Greek), Albanian (or Illyrian), Italic (including Latin and the Romance languages ), Celtic, Tocharian (an extinct group from central Asia), Germanic (including English, Ger...
The Indo-European language family 5 1.3 The branches of the IE tree It follows from the remarks about Lydian and Lycian that the sub-families of IE are vitally important in determining the membership of the family. Whereas the affinity of the oldest IE languages declares itself as stronger than
Oct 25, 2023 · Published: October 25, 2023 8:14am EDT. The languages in the Indo-European family are spoken by almost half of the world’s population. This group includes a huge number of languages, ranging...
investigated of all to date, is the one that Greek belongs to, the one known as the Indo-European language family. The source language, generally called “Proto-Indo-European”, was spoken some 6,500 years ago (see the article by J. P. Mallory) and has given rise to several hundred languages, in ten major branches.
