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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 ...
The Indo-European Family of Languages 13. Language Constantly Changing. In the mind of the average person language is associated with writing and calls up a picture of the printed page. From Latin or French as we meet it in literature we get an impression of something uniform and relatively fixed. We are likely to forget that writing
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By Jack Lynch,Rutgers University — Newark. Note: 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.
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Use the space below to sketch a diagram of the Indo-European language family tree. Language is one of the primary ways Europeans define themselves. Most Europeans—and about half of the people in the world—speak languages that evolved out of an ancient parent language known as Indo-European.
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Mar 14, 2022 · PDF | COLE TCH, SIEBERT-COLE E (2022) FAMILY TREE of LANGUAGES, PART I: Indo-European • a selection of languages and language families • hypothetical... | Find, read and cite all the...
Finnish is a member of the Finnic group of the Uralic family of languages; as such, it is one of the few European languages that is not Indo-European. The Finnic group also includes Estonian and a few minority languages spoken around the Baltic Sea and in Russia's Republic of Karelia .
The Indo-European language family can be represented as follows: 0. Proto-Indo-European, 1. Anatolian vs. other Indo-European, 2. Tocharian vs. Classic Indo-European, 3. Italo-Celtic vs. Central Indo-European, 4. Germanic vs. Nuclear Indo-European, 5. Graeco-Phrygian vs. Satǝm Indo-European, 6. Thraco-Armenian vs. North Satǝm Indo-European, 7.
