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Jan 19, 2013 · Illustration. by Multiple authors. published on 19 January 2013. Download Full Size Image. Partial tree of Indo-European languages. Branches are in order of first attestation; those to the left are Centum, those to the right are Satem. Languages in red are extinct. White labels indicate categories / un-attested proto-languages.
Indo-European languages - Characteristics, Developments, & Dialects: As Proto-Indo-European was splitting into the dialects that were to become the first generation of daughter languages, different innovations spread over different territories. Indo-Iranian, Balto-Slavic, Armenian, and Albanian agree in changing the palatal stops *ḱ, *ǵ, and *ǵh into spirants (s, ś, th, etc.) or ...
Feb 27, 2001 · The origins of Finnish languages¿and the people who speak them¿have puzzled scientists for a long time. Almost all other Europeans speak Indo-European languages: most northern Europeans speak ...
Basque ( / ˈbæsk, ˈbɑːsk /; [5] euskara [eus̺ˈkaɾa]) is the last surviving Paleo-European language spoken indigenously in Europe, predating the Indo-European languages of the Bronze Age invasion of Europe from the Black Sea by pastoralists whose descendant languages dominate the continent today.
Map of Middle Bronze Age cultures (ca. 1750-1250 BC). Old version: 2007. Finno-Ugric languages (Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian, Saami) Turkic languages (Turkish, Azeri) Basque language. Semitic languages (Maltese) Caucasian languages (Georgian, Kabardian, Chechen, etc.) Languages of Europe today. Maps of hypothetical distribution of prehistoric ...
The parent language: Proto-Indo-European. By comparing the recorded Indo-European languages, especially the most ancient ones, much of the parent language from which they are descended can be reconstructed. This reconstructed parent language is sometimes called simply Indo-European, but in this article the term Proto-Indo-European is preferred.
May 28, 2021 · The Ukrainian language is one of the Slavic languages of the Indo-European family of languages which includes most of the languages of Europe and a number of Indo-Iranian languages. All these have a theorized common ancestor — the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language that linguists have been reconstructing since the early 19th century based on ...
