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The Indo-Iranian languages (also known as Indo-Iranic languages [1] [2] or collectively the Aryan languages [3]) constitute the largest and southeasternmost extant branch of the Indo-European language family. They include over 300 languages, spoken by around 1.5 billion speakers, predominantly in South Asia, West Asia and parts of Central Asia .
Oct 23, 2014 · When linguists talk about the historical relationship between languages, they use a tree metaphor. An ancient source (say, Indo-European) has various branches (e.g., Romance, Germanic), which ...
Avestan. Baluchi. Farsi (Persian) Kurdish. Pashto (Afghan) Sogdian. You may have noticed that a few languages spoken on the European continent are not included in the Indo-European family of languages. Finnish, Hungarian and Estonian belong to the Uralic (also called Finno-Ugric) family, and Basque (spoken in the Pyrenees region) has no genetic ...
Aug 24, 2012 · Indo-Iranian. Researchers studied the evolution of words across 103 modern and extinct languages from the Indo-European language family, and created a tree showing the relationships among the different languages, at right. The map above shows where each major branch probably arose, before spreading and diversifying to other regions.
Mar 7, 2017 · Finnish people probably won’t make a lot out of Spanish, and if you’re from Spain, Finnish might as well be Chinese. ... Even beyond the wider bonds of the Indo-European language family, some ...
This is the newest version (2023) of my language tree: it’s more extensive and better laid out than the old one. A PDF version is also available; it looks better when printed. If you’re interested in the older one, the image appears below. The chart below shows the relations among some of the languages in the Indo-European family.
The position of the Germanic languages within the Indo-European languages is problematic, as well as its presentation within a tree model (Kapović 2017, p. 388). There is some evidence that North and West Germanic are closer to each other than their sister East Germanic, and they are therefore grouped into one branch, North-West, with East ...
