In historical linguistics, the homeland or Urheimat (/ ˈ ʊər h aɪ m ɑː t /, from German ur-"original" and Heimat, home) of a proto-language is the region in which it was spoken before splitting into different daughter languages.A proto-language is the reconstructed or historically-attested parent language of a group of languages that are genetically related.

An endangered language, or moribund language, is a language that is at risk of falling out of use as its speakers die out or shift to speaking another language. Language loss occurs when the language has no more native speakers and becomes a "dead language".. 25 endangered Turkic languages exist in World. The number of speakers derived from statistics or estimates (2019) …

Nov 10, 2021 · The origin and early dispersal of speakers of Transeurasian languages—that is, Japanese, Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic—is among the most disputed issues of Eurasian population history1 ...

1. Have students read a passage about languages of Europe.. Introduce the vocabulary term language family.A language family is a "group of languages with a common ancestry and similar words." Tell students that Indo-European is the largest and most widespread language family.