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The 449 Indo-European languages identified in the SIL estimate, 2018 edition, are mostly living languages. If all the known extinct Indo-European languages are added, they number more than 800 or close to one thousand. This list includes all known Indo-European languages, living and extinct. What constitutes a language?
Indo-European family tree in order of first attestation Indo-European language family tree based on "Ancestry-constrained phylogenetic analysis of Indo-European languages" by Chang et al. Membership of languages in the Indo-European language family is determined by genealogical relationships, meaning that all members are presumed descendants of ...
- † indicates this branch of the language family is extinct
- Proto-Indo-European
- One of the world's primary language families
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Indo-European is a family of languages (including most of the languages spoken in Europe, India, and Iran) descended from a common tongue spoken in the third millennium B.C. by an agricultural people originating in southeastern Europe. The family of languages is the second-oldest in the world, only behind the Afroasiatic family (which includes the ...
"The ancestor of all the IE languages is called Proto-Indo-European, or PIE for short. . . . "Since no documents in reconstructed PIE are preserved or can reasonably hope to be found, the structure of this hypothesized language will always be somewhat controversial." (Benjamin W. Fortson, IV, Indo-European Language and Culture. Wiley, 2009) "Englis...
"The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and the forms of grammar,than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed,...
"The languages of Europe and those of Northern India, Iran, and part of Western Asia belong to a group known as the Indo-European Languages. They probably originated from a common language-speaking group about 4000 BC and then split up as various subgroups migrated. English shares many words with these Indo-European languages, though some of the si...
The Indo-European Languages, a more in-depth overview 1. Anatolian. The family of Anatolian languages is thought to have split off first from Proto-Indo-European, leaving us with what is called post-Anatolian-PIE (Anthony and Ringe 2015, p. 201). The Anatolian languages, of which Hittite is the best attested, date to the last two millennia BC ...
Feb 12, 2024 · One such analysis, published in 2012, pointed to an origin of Indo-European about 9,000 years ago in Anatolia, supporting the theory that Indo-European originated with farmers. But just three years later, a different team used much the same data to conclude that the origin was just 6,000 years ago on the steppes, supporting the opposite view ...
This list is of Indo-European languages. These languages all sprung from a common source called Proto-Indo-European. Armenian; Albanian; Baltic languages. Latvian; Lithuanian; Celtic languages. Goidelic languages; Brythonic languages; Germanic languages. North Germanic languages Danish; Faroese; Icelandic; Norwegian; Swedish; West Germanic ...
The Indo-European Language Family - September 2022. 1.1 Background . The study of the genealogical relationship between the Indo-European languages has been the object of research ever since August Schleicher’s famous Stammbaum representation of the then-known subgroups, or branches (Reference Schleicher 1861: 7; see also Reference Schleicher 1853: 787).
