The Indo-European languages include some 449 (SIL estimate, 2018 edition) language families spoken by about or more than 3.5 billion people (roughly half of the world population).Most of the major languages belonging to language branches and groups of Europe, and western and southern Asia, belong to the Indo-European language family.Therefore, Indo-European is the …

12/09/2010 · Then some other guys showed up from the steppes of Asia who had an Indo-European language. They liked things like horses and cows and kings. Anyway, these Indo-European folks pretty much started dominating. And their language is more or less what can be called "Greek". This language pretty much broke down into three big dialectical groups at a …

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 …

The 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 some point in human history.

The Indo-European family is divided into several branches or subfamilies. It consists of numerous Indo-Iranian languages, including Sanskrit, Hindi, and Farsi (Persian); Greek ; Baltic languages such as Lithuanian and Latvian; Celtic languages such as Breton, Welsh, and Scottish and Irish Gaelic; Romance languages such as French, Spanish, Catalan, ...

Greek language - Greek language - The middle phases: Koine and Byzantine Greek: The fairly uniform spoken Greek that gradually replaced the local dialects after the breakdown of old political barriers and the establishment of Alexander’s empire in the 4th century bce is known as the Koine (hē koinē dialektos ‘the common language’), or “Hellenistic Greek.”

Recent genetic and anthropology studies have changed the traditional learning of Indo-European, which included previously extensive study of Greek. Today it is known that several language families, such as Celtic, Germanic, Slavic, Celtic, as well as even Iranic derive from Prot-Indo-European influence. Proto-Indo-European (PIE) Early European Language

Those us of who study the Greek of the Hellenistic and koine period of the language need to stop pretending that diachronic linguistics doesn’t apply to them. Syncronic analysis is essential and important, but language does not exist in a vaccuum. Syncronic language systems do not just ex nihilo. They came from somewhere.

12/09/2011 · I have explained in Revising the classification of Indo-European languages that Latin and Greek are probably hybrid languages with two major components: one Indo-European, and the other from an unknown West Asian language (probably long extinct). There may also be older Neolithic loanwords.