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2 days ago · The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some European languages of this family— English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch, and Spanish —have expanded through colonialism in the modern period and are now spoken across several ...
- † indicates this branch of the language family is extinct
- Proto-Indo-European
- One of the world's primary language families
5 days ago · The Goidelic words were probably borrowed from a Brythonic language [ source ]. Some words for Brushes and Brooms in Celtic languages come from the same roots, as do the words scopa (broom) in Italian, escoba (broom) in Spanish, and shqopë (heather, heath, briar) in Albanian [ source ]. Old Irish (Goídelc) saball = barn.
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2 days ago · John Italos (fl. 1070s) was a prominent and controversial intellectual figure in eleventh-century Byzantium. An immigrant from Byzantine Italy, he made a stellar career in Constantinople succeeding Michael Psellos as head of the imperially sponsored school of philosophy. His dialectical method and combative temper made him a renowned figure in ...
3 days ago · The main subfamilies that have been proposed by Ethnologue within the various classification schemes for Romance languages are: Italo-Western, the largest group, which includes languages such as Galician, Catalan, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, and French. Eastern Romance, which includes Romanian and closely related languages.
5 days ago · Celtic languages consist of a group of languages originating from Proto-Celtic. They fall under two major categories: Continental Celtic, with extinct languages like Lepontic and Gaulish, and Insular Celtic, which includes several living languages such as Breton, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh, alongside revived languages like Cornish and Manx.
1 day ago · Illyrians. Illyrian tribes in the 1st–2nd centuries AD. The Illyrians ( Ancient Greek: Ἰλλυριοί, Illyrioi; Latin: Illyrii) were a group of Indo-European-speaking people who inhabited the western Balkan Peninsula in ancient times. They constituted one of the three main Paleo-Balkan populations, along with the Thracians and Greeks .
4 days ago · The Celtic English language refers to the influence of Celtic languages on the English language. While English itself is a Germanic language, it has been influenced by various Celtic languages, especially in certain regions of the United Kingdom and Ireland. Here are some frequently asked questions about the Celtic …
