WebIn historical linguistics, Italo-Celtic is a hypothetical grouping of the Italic and Celtic branches of the Indo-European language family on the basis of features shared by these two branches and no others. There is controversy about the causes of these similarities. They are usually considered to be innovations, likely to have developed after the breakup …

WebProto-Indo-European nominals include nouns, adjectives, and pronouns.Their grammatical forms and meanings have been reconstructed by modern linguists, based on similarities found across all Indo-European languages.This article discusses nouns and adjectives; Proto-Indo-European pronouns are treated elsewhere. The Proto-Indo …

WebThe first person to offer systematic reconstructions of an unattested proto-language was August Schleicher; he did so for Proto-Indo-European in 1861. Proto-X vs. Pre-X. Normally, the term "Proto-X" refers to the last common ancestor of a group of languages, occasionally attested but most commonly reconstructed through the comparative method ...

WebJaponic or Japanese–Ryukyuan, sometimes also Japanic, is a language family comprising Japanese, spoken in the main islands of Japan, and the Ryukyuan languages, spoken in the Ryukyu Islands.The family is universally accepted by linguists, and significant progress has been made in reconstructing the proto-language. The reconstruction implies a split …

WebThe oldest attested Indo-European language is Hittite, which belongs to the oldest written Indo-European languages, the Anatolian branch. Although the Hittites are placed in the 2nd millennium BCE, the Anatolian branch seems to predate Proto-Indo-European, and may have developed from an older Pre-Proto-Indo-European ancestor.

WebIn 1892, John Rhys proposed that Pictish was a non-Indo-European language. This opinion was based on the apparently unintelligible ogham inscriptions found in historically Pictish areas (compare Ogham inscription § Scholastic inscriptions). A similar position was taken by Heinrich Zimmer, who argued that the Picts' supposedly exotic cultural practices …

WebGreek has been spoken in the Balkan peninsula since around the 3rd millennium BC, or possibly earlier. The earliest written evidence is a Linear B clay tablet found in Messenia that dates to between 1450 and 1350 BC, making Greek the world's oldest recorded living language.Among the Indo-European languages, its date of earliest written attestation is …

WebProto-Slavic (abbreviated PSl., PS.; also called Common Slavic or Common Slavonic) is the unattested, reconstructed proto-language of all Slavic languages.It represents Slavic speech approximately from the 2nd millennium B.C. through the 6th century A.D. As with most other proto-languages, no attested writings have been found; scholars have …

WebPunjabi (/ p ʌ n ˈ dʒ ɑː b i /; پنجابی (); ਪੰਜਾਬੀ (), Punjabi: [pəɲˈdʒab̆.bi] ()), sometimes spelled Panjabi, is an Indo-Aryan language of the Punjab region of Pakistan and India. It has approximately 113 million native speakers. Punjabi is the most widely-spoken first language in Pakistan, with 80.5 million native speakers as per the 2017 census, and the 11th most ...

WebUkrainian (native name: украї́нська мо́ва, romanized: ukrainska mova, IPA: [ʊkrɐˈjinʲsʲkɐ ˈmɔʋɐ]) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family.It is the native language of about 40 million people and the official state language of Ukraine in Eastern Europe.Written Ukrainian uses the Ukrainian alphabet, a variant of the Cyrillic script.

WebJul 09, 2018 · The Indo-European language family is the largest in the world. It consists of 437 daughter languages and has an estimated 2.91 billion speakers across Europe and Asia. This number of speakers represents nearly half of the total global population. many languages in the Indo-European family are widely used, including English , Spanish , …

WebIrish is one of the Republic of Ireland's two official languages along with English.Historically the predominant language of the island, it is now mostly spoken in parts of the south, west, and northwest. The legally defined Irish-speaking areas are called the Gaeltacht; all government institutions of the Republic, in particular the parliament (Oireachtas), its …

WebLangues indo-européennes: Région Europe, Asie mineure, monde iranien, Asie centrale, Inde du Nord ; extension au Nouveau Monde partir du XVI e siècle [1].: Classification par famille-langues indo-européennes-albanais (langues paléo-balkaniques)-langues anatoliennes (éteintes)-arménien-langues balto-slaves-langues celtiques-langues …

WebThe Indo-Aryan languages (or sometimes Indic languages) are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family that are spoken natively by the Indo-Aryan peoples.As of the early 21st century, they have more than 800 million speakers, primarily concentrated in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Maldives. …