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  1. The 449 Indo-European languages identified in the SIL estimate, 2018 edition, are mostly living languages. If all the known extinct Indo-European languages are added, they number more than 800 or close to one thousand. This list includes all known Indo-European languages, living and extinct. What constitutes a language?

  2. Feb 2, 2016 · INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES The Indo-European Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual lan-guages and language subgroups within this language family. With over four hundred languages and dialects and almost three billion native speak-ers, the Indo-European language family is the largest of the recognized language groups

  3. Mar 4, 2024 · drawing up a list of reference meanings; identifying the primary word (lexeme) used in each language; assessing which lexemes are cognates; Reference meanings. IE-CoR currently covers 170 meanings. The meanings are basic concepts such as body parts, numbers, colour terms, and so on. Examples are HAND, THREE, FIRE, NIGHT, SMALL and EAT.

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  5. 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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  6. 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.

  7. The 449 Indo-European languages identified in the SIL estimate, 2018 edition, [1] are mostly living languages. If all the known extinct Indo-European languages are added, they number more than 800 or close to one thousand. This list includes all known Indo-European languages, living and extinct. What constitutes a language?

  8. In addition, the IE Reflex Pages list words derived from the individual etyma: at present, nearly 200 ancient and modern Indo-European languages or dialects are represented by reflexes, the vast majority of which may be located alphabetically via our Language Index pages.

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