WebThe Indo-European languages comprise a family of several hundred related languages and dialects , including most of the major languages of Europe, as well as many spoken in the Indian subcontinent (), the Iranian plateau (Southwest Asia), and Central Asia.Present-day languages in this family with more than 100 million native speakers each include …

WebThe family of Indo-European languages is a collection of several hundred languages, including the majority of languages spoken in Europe, the plateau of Iran and the subcontinent of India, that share a considerable common vocabulary and linguistic features.These shared traits have led many scholars to believe that these languages …

WebLanguage Indices. Below we list Indo-European languages by family, from west to east. Families are divided into groups, by age and/or geographic area (again, generally from west to east). Each language is listed via a standard abbreviation followed by its full-form name; " a.k.a. " comments may indicate synonymous language/dialect names.

WebThomas Young first used the term Indo-European in 1813, deriving it from the geographical extremes of the language family: from Western Europe to North India.A synonym is Indo-Germanic (Idg. or IdG.), specifying the family's southeasternmost and northwesternmost branches. This first appeared in French (indo-germanique) in 1810 in the work of Conrad …

WebOct 06, 2020 · Countries That Speak Indo-European Languages Speaking of Indo-European countries, there are 46 lands that represent this branch which are divided even further. Currently, the list of people that belongs to our group contains forty-six countries: Afghanistan Albania Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Bangladesh Belarus Belgium

WebIndo-European Family of Languages, The (table) The Indo-European Family of Languages Subfamily Group Subgroup Languages and Principal Dialects Anatolian Hieroglypic Hittite*, Hittite (Kanesian)*, Luwian*, Lycian*, Lydian*, Palaic* Baltic Latvian (Lettish), Lithuanian, Old Prussian* Celtic Brythonic Breton, Cornish, Welsh Continental …

WebThe Indo European Languages numbering about 439, are a family of related languages. Of them 221 languages belong to the Indo-Aryan sub branch. It is believed that they were derived from a common source or they shared a common history at …

WebAug 15, 2020 · Appendix:Indo-European Swadesh lists. This is a Swadesh list of Indo-European languages, specifically Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Germanic, Proto-Italic, Proto-Indo-Iranian, Proto-Balto-Slavic and Proto-Slavic, compared with that of English .

WebJones's observation became the theory of "Indo-European" languages, and today the hypothetical language that would be the common source for all Indo-European languages is called "Proto-Indo-European" [ note ]. The following table shows a genealogy for two "knowing" roots, which in modern English turn up as "know" and "wit."

WebOr, rather, a preliminary approach to the most likely key to understand the ultimate origin of Proto-Uralic. Despite the multiple far-fetched proposals of long-range connections between Asian languages and Uralic – e.g. Ural-Altaic, Uralo-Siberian, Eskimo-Uralic, or Uralo-Dravidian – its closest language family is evidently Indo-European ...

WebWhere did Indo-European come from? New research links the origins of Indo-European with the spread of farming from Anatolia 8,000 to 9,500 years ago. The Indo-European languages belong to one of the widest spread language families of the world. For the last two millenia, many of these languages have been written, and their history is relatively ...