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Indo-European languages. The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent.
- Indo-European (Disambiguation)
Indo-European is a major language family of Europe, parts of...
- Indo-Iranian
Chart classifying Indo-Iranian languages within the...
- Proto-Indo-European Language
Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common...
- Italic
Italic; Latino-Sabine, Italic–Venetic: Ethnicity: Originally...
- Language Family
For example, the reconstructible common ancestor of the...
- 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
According to Ivantchik, the Greek form of the name Κιμμεριοι...
- Elymian
Elymian is the extinct language of the ancient Elymian...
- Indo-European (Disambiguation)
The Indo-European languages are a family of several hundred related languages and dialects, [2] including most major languages in Europe, the Iranian plateau, and South Asia . Historically, the language family was also important in Anatolia and Central Asia. The earliest Indo-European writing is from the Bronze Age in Anatolian and Mycenaean Greek.
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English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.
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Lexicon and culture. Much less is known about the parent language’s vocabulary than about its phonology and grammar. Sounds and grammatical categories do not easily disappear or undergo radical change in so many daughter languages that their former existence can no longer be detected.
Indo-European is the best known and most studied linguistic family. Its documentation spans a period of almost 4,000 years. Furthermore, Western grammatical tradition developed its basic descriptive notions upon the analysis of languages belonging to this family (Greek and Latin, in the first place).
Contents. Home Geography & Travel Languages. Morphology and syntax. Verbal inflection. The Proto-Indo-European verb had three aspects: imperfective, perfective, and stative. Aspect refers to the nature of an action as described by the speaker—e.g., an event occurring once, an event recurring repeatedly, a continuing process, or a state.
