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May 16, 2007 · Interestingly, the two non-Indo-European language groups of Europe—Finno-Ugric (Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian) and Basque—have no grammatical genders. English has almost lost them when referring to inanimate objects, with the exception of the feminine sometimes used for vessels and other means of transportation (Fill 'er up!).
Sep 8, 2007 · <<For instance, Russian and Urdu or English and Punjabi seem totally different language to me so I don't know why they are called as Indo-European languages. >> When you compare the IndoEuropean languages to others, you can see that some of the other (non IndoEuropean) langaures are *really* different. Example: Most IE languages use alphabets.
Sep 3, 2007 · Sam, read the answers to your postings. German isn't an ancient language, nor are the slavic languages. Greek (modern Greek) isn't ancient, too. The ''synthetic character'' of a language is only one part of the total complexity of a language, the complexity of the grammar is another part. The complexity of the phoneme system is a third one.
Jan 27, 2008 · In very shallow discussions (not in antimoon, just as a note), I can see people find it so convenient to discourage themselves or others (for unknown or unconvincing reasons) to blame languages for their difficulty and refuse to learn them, particularly all those Indo-European inflecting languages with cases and some with genders.
Sep 11, 2009 · A well-known Slavic word in almost all European languages is vodka, a borrowing from Russian водка (vodka), lit. "little water", from common Slavic voda (water, cognate to the English word) with the diminutive ending -ka. Owing to the mediæval fur trade with Northern Russia, Pan-European loans from Russian include such familiar words as ...
Mar 27, 2004 · The other Romance languages seem to have kept the difference but not Spanish and it is argued that this could be to the Basque influence since "v" doesn't exist in that ancient non Indo-European language and Spanish was born in contact with the same.
Everyone seems to forget the oldest living indo-european language is IRANIAN. Guest Fri Nov 30, 2007 11:55 pm GMT. It is Sanskrit.
