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2 days ago · Within the Indo-European family, the Celtic languages have sometimes been placed with the Italic languages in a common Italo-Celtic subfamily. This hypothesis fell somewhat out of favour after reexamination by American linguist Calvert Watkins in 1966.
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1 day 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
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2 days ago · As the Beaker culture left no written records, all theories regarding the language or languages they spoke remain conjectural. It has been suggested as a candidate for an early Indo-European culture, or as the origin of the Vasconic substrate.
- c. 2800–1800 BC
- Europe and Northwest Africa
4 days ago · 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 ].
Apr 19, 2024 · Group of languages belonging to the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Italic languages). Also called Romanic. Among the more important Romance languages are Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese, Occitan, Rhaeto-Romanic, Romanian, and Spanish.
May 7, 2024 · However, little is known about these eastern Mygdones, and no evidence of Phrygian language in that region has been found. 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.
Apr 27, 2024 · A Lithuanian literary language has been in existence since the 16th century, the earliest document being translations of the Lord’s Prayer, a creed, and the Ave Maria, made about 1525.
