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4 days ago · The Proto-Indo-European homeland was the prehistoric linguistic homeland of the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE). From this region, its speakers migrated east and west, and went on to form the proto-communities of the different branches of the Indo-European language family.
4 days ago · The Indo-European family is divided into several branches or sub-families, of which there are eight groups with languages still alive today: Albanian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic, Celtic, Germanic, Hellenic, Indo-Iranian, and Italic; another nine subdivisions are now extinct .
- † indicates this branch of the language family is extinct
- Proto-Indo-European
- One of the world's primary language families
5 days ago · Celtiberian or Northeastern Hispano-Celtic (3rd to 1st century BC) [1] is the name given to the language in northeast Iberia, between the headwaters of the Douro, Tagus, Júcar and Turía rivers and the Ebro river. It is attested in some 200 inscriptions as well as place names. It is distinct from Iberian.
- Continental Europe, Anatolia
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1 day ago · Some scholars therefore group them together as developments of a branch they call Italo-Celtic. The Celts were spread over a huge territory in Europe long before the emergence in history of the Germanic peoples. Before the beginning of the Christian era, Celtic languages were spoken over the greater part of central and western Europe.
It seems that the accusative theory of the origin of all Romance plurals has larger support than the nominative theory. Feminine plural 'e' of Italo-/Eastern Romance is thought to derive from -as via the sound change /a:s/ > /ai(s)/ > /ai/ > /e/, with the intermediate /aj/ diphthong stage confirmed by monosyllabic outcomes of 'stai', 'crai'.
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5 days ago · 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 ...
4 days ago · Celtic goddesses were worshipped and called upon in several Celtic regions around the continent. They were goddesses of water, nature, fertility, wisdom and power, just to list a few. Inscriptions mentioning Celtic goddesses were also unearthed in several locations, such as in Britain and Scotland .
