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However, from about AD 1500 onwards, Indo-European languages expanded their territories to North Asia , through Russian expansion, and North America, South America, Australia and New Zealand as the result of the age of European discoveries and European conquests through the expansions of the Portuguese, Spanish, French, English and the Dutch ...
This list is of Indo-European languages. These languages all sprung from a common source called Proto-Indo-European . Armenian. Albanian. Baltic languages. Latvian. Lithuanian. Celtic languages. Goidelic languages.
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The Indo-European languages are the world's most spoken language family. [1] Linguists believe they all come from a single language, Proto-Indo-European, which was originally spoken somewhere in Eurasia. They are now spoken all over the world. The Indo-European languages are a family of several hundred related languages and dialects, [2 ...
SECTION 7. The Indo-Europeans and Historical Linguistics. In the late eighteenth century, a British judge living in India noticed profound similarities in several historical languages, which suggested to him they shared a common origin. His hypothesis gave rise to the field of historical linguistics, the study of language change over time.
The Indo-European wordlists. These are the parallel wordlists of 24 Indo-European (IE) languages used in Ringe, Warnow, and Taylor 2002. The first section (through page 42) is a 207-word version of the Swadesh 200-word list with five of the characters (‘day’ and the 1st- and 2nd-person pro-nouns) split into two characters each.
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Pokorny Master PIE Etyma. The table below lists Proto-Indo-European (PIE) etyma adapted from Julius Pokorny's book, Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (Bern: Francke, 1959, 1989). Entry head-words are listed, with their page numbers and cross-references to other entries (following Pokorny) plus our own English glosses; for more ...
1.1 Introduction. Indo-European (IE) is the best-studied language family in the world. For much of the past 200 years more scholars have worked on the comparative philology of IE than on all the other areas of linguistics put together. We know more about the history and relationships of the IE languages than about any other group of languages.
