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Feb 2, 2016 · INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES The Indo-European Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual lan-guages and language subgroups within this language family. With over four hundred languages and dialects and almost three billion native speak-ers, the Indo-European language family is the largest of the recognized language groups
1.1 Introduction. Indo-European (IE) is the best-studied language family in the world. For much of the past 200 years more scholars have worked on the comparative philology of IE than on all the other areas of linguistics put together. We know more about the history and relationships of the IE languages than about any other group of languages.
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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 ...
A diagram of the "Indo-Aryan" branch of the Indo-European family. * A chart of the western (Centum) Indo-European languages *. One proposed diffusion map (among many)-- this one is from "The Early History of the Indo-European Languages," by Thomas V. Gamkrelidze and V. V. Ivanov (Scientific American, March 1990:110) Another proposed diffusion ...
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 . Finnish demonstrates an affiliation with other Uralic ...
Celtic languages. Baltic languages. Indo-European languages, family of languages spoken in most of Europe and areas of European settlement and in much of Southwest and South Asia. The term Indo-Hittite is used by scholars who believe that Hittite and the other Anatolian languages are not just one branch of Indo-European but rather a branch ...
Aug 24, 2012 · There are two competing hypotheses for the origin of the Indo-European language family. The conventional view places the homeland in the Pontic steppes about 6000 years ago. An alternative hypothesis claims that the languages spread from Anatolia with the expansion of farming 8000 to 9500 years ago. We used Bayesian phylogeographic approaches ...
