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2 days ago · Today, the individual Indo-European languages with the most native speakers are English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, French and German each with over 100 million native speakers; many others are small and in danger of extinction. In total, 46% of the world's population (3.2 billion people) speaks an Indo-European ...
- Indo-European (Disambiguation)
Indo-European is a major language family of Europe, parts of...
- Indo-Iranian
The Indo-Iranian languages (also known as Indo-Iranic...
- Proto-Indo-European Language
Branched into the Baltic languages and the Slavic languages....
- Italic
Italic; Latino-Sabine, Italic–Venetic: Ethnicity: Originally...
- Language Family
Estimates of the number of language families in the world...
- Ancient Belgian
Ancient Belgian is a hypothetical extinct Indo-European...
- Proto-Indo-European Homeland
The Proto-Indo-European homeland was the prehistoric...
- Dacian
Dacian (/ ˈ d eɪ ʃ ə n /) is an extinct language generally...
- Cimmerian
Proto-Balto-Slavic (Proto-Slavic · Proto-Baltic)...
- Elymian
Elymian is the extinct language of the ancient Elymian...
- Indo-European (Disambiguation)
Mar 31, 2024 · e. Proto-Baltic ( PB, PBl, Common Baltic) is the unattested, reconstructed ancestral proto-language of all Baltic languages. It is not attested in writing, but has been partly reconstructed through the comparative method by gathering the collected data on attested Baltic and other Indo-European languages.
- 3rd m. BC – c. 5th century BC
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Apr 10, 2024 · The following list is a comparison of basic Proto- Slavic vocabulary and the corresponding reflexes in the modern languages, for assistance in understanding the discussion in Proto-Slavic and History of the Slavic languages. The word list is based on the Swadesh word list, developed by the linguist Morris Swadesh, a tool to study the evolution ...
Apr 13, 2024 · Latvian language, East Baltic language spoken primarily in Latvia, where it has been the official language since 1918. It belongs to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European family of languages. (See Baltic languages.) In the late 20th century Latvian was spoken by about 1.5 million people. The
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Apr 4, 2024 · The Origins of the Indo-European languages. April 4, 2024. French sounds romantic, German aggressive, Italian passionate – we associate a lot with languages. Our mother tongue is part of our culture, our childhood and our customs. Language shapes our identity, it influences our way of thinking. It creates community and a sense of belonging.
Apr 8, 2024 · It seems likely, however, that in very early times the Balto-Slavic group was its nearest of kin. Of ancient languages, both Dacian (or Daco-Mysian) and Illyrian have been tentatively considered its ancestor or nearest relative. Grammar. The grammatical categories of Albanian are much like those of other European languages.
Apr 13, 2024 · The Slavic language family is divided into three branches: West Slavic, East Slavic, and South Slavic. The most commonly spoken Slavic languages are Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, and Slovenian. Each language has its own unique characteristics and features that make it distinct from the others.
