WebProto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family. Its proposed features have been derived by linguistic reconstruction from documented Indo-European languages. No direct record of Proto-Indo-European exists. Far more work has gone into reconstructing PIE than any other proto-language, and it is …

WebIndo-European; Geographic distribution: Pre-colonial era: Eurasia and northern Africa Today: Worldwide c. 3.2 billion native speakers: ... (3.2 billion people) speaks an Indo-European language as a first language — by far the highest of any language family. There are about 445 living Indo-European languages, according to an ...

WebThe Indo people (Dutch: Indische Nederlanders, or Indos) are Eurasian people living in or connected with Indonesia.In its narrowest sense, the term refers to people in the former Dutch East Indies who held European legal status but were of mixed Dutch and indigenous Indonesian descent as well as their descendants today.. In the broadest sense, an Indo …

WebProto-Indo-European mythology is the body of myths and deities associated with the Proto-Indo-Europeans, ... In the original legend, Trito is only taking back what rightfully belongs to his people, those who sacrifice properly to the gods. ...

WebMorphology. The basic structure of Proto-Indo-European nouns and adjectives was the same as that of PIE verbs.A lexical word (as would appear in a dictionary) was formed by adding a suffix (S) onto a root (R) to form a stem.The word was then inflected by adding an ending (E) to the stem.. The root indicates a basic concept, often a verb (e.g. *deh₃ …

WebDefinition. In the words of philologist Martin L. West, "If there was an Indo-European language, it follows that there was a people who spoke it: not a people in the sense of a nation, for they may never have formed a political unity, and not a people in any racial sense, for they may have been as genetically mixed as any modern population defined by …

WebThe Indo-Aryan migrations were the migrations into the Indian subcontinent of Indo-Aryan peoples, an ethnolinguistic group that spoke Indo-Aryan languages, the predominant languages of today's North India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the Maldives.Indo-Aryan population movements into the region from Central Asia are …

WebThe Indo-European languages include some 449 (SIL estimate, 2018 edition) languages 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 …

WebNotes. The following conventions are used: Cognates are in general given in the oldest well-documented language of each family, although forms in modern languages are given for families in which the older stages of the languages are poorly documented or do not differ significantly from the modern languages. In addition, modern English forms are given for …

WebIndo-Iranian peoples, also known as Indo-Iranic peoples by scholars, and sometimes as Arya or Aryans from their self-designation, were a group of Indo-European peoples who brought the Indo-Iranian languages, a major branch of the Indo-European language family, to major parts of Eurasia in the second part of the 3rd millennium BCE. They eventually …