Indo-European languages. Indo-Iranian Iranian Avestan; Old Persian -> Modern Persian Indic Sanskrit and Prakrits -> Romany, Bengali, Hindi Armenian Balto-Slavic Baltic -> Prussian, Lettish, Lithuanian Slavic West -> Polish, Czecho-Slovak South -> Bulgarian, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian East -> Russian Albanian Celtic -> Gallic

Avestan comes from the Iranian sub-branch of the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European languages. Avesta is most closely related to Baluchi, Kurdish, Pashto, and the extinct language of Sogdian. It is somewhat more distantly related to Old Persian and Persian. The language's name comes from the Avesta, the holy book in the Zoroastrian religion.

08/08/2017 · Avestan is the oldest known form of the languages in the Iranian part of the Indo-Iranian language family, part of the Indo-European language family. Avestan is named for the Zend Avesta , the sacred scriptures of the Zoroastrians in which it appears.

The Indo-European languages are a language family native to western and southern Eurasia.It comprises most of the languages of Europe together with those of the northern Indian subcontinent and the Iranian Plateau.Some European languages of this family, such as English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Danish, Dutch, and Spanish, have expanded through colonialism …

30/07/2017 · The Sanskrit language is probably the oldest Indo-European language for which we have compositions, although the texts that we have were not written down until the Common Era (CE). This is the language of the Vedas, one of our major sources of information about the Gods and myths of the Indo-Europeans.

Language 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.

The Indo-European wordlists. These are the parallel wordlists of 24 Indo-European (IE) languages used in Ringe, Warnow, and Taylor 2002. The first section (through page 42) is a 207-word version of the Swadesh 200-word list with five of the characters (‘day’ and the 1st- and 2nd-person pro-nouns) split into two characters each.