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 …

List of Indo-European languages. This list is of Indo-European languages. These languages all sprung from a common source called Proto-Indo-European. 'Armenian; Albanian(Albania and Kosovo)' Baltic languages. Lithuanian language; Celtic languages. Goidelic languages; Brythonic languages; Germanic languages. North Germanic languages Danish; Norwegian; Swedish; …

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.

It appears to have become extinct during the late sixth century.[13]Little is known of the language. Some proper names of Burgundians are recorded, and some words used in the area in modern times are thought to be derived from the ancient Burgundian language,[13] but it is often difficult to distinguish these from Germanic words of other origin, and in any case the modern form of …

The term Indo-European was introduced in 1816 by Franz Bopp of Germany and referred to a family of languages in Europe and Asia (including Northern India, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh) that were found to have a remarkable structural relationship. It turns out that Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Hittite, Old Irish, Gothic, Old Bulgarian, Old Prussian, and other languages …

According to Grimm’s law, the shift occurred when /p, t, k/ in the classical Indo-European languages (Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit) became /f, t, h/ in Germanic languages. For example, Latin pater > English father, Latin cornu > English horn. You can easily see the resemblances among four common words across five Indo-European languages.

15/08/2020 · This is a Swadesh list of words in Proto-Indo-European, compared with that of English.. Presentation [] For further information, including the full final version of the list, read the Wikipedia article: Swadesh list. American linguist Morris Swadesh believed that languages changed at measurable rates and that these could be determined even for languages without …