Indo-European languages, family of languages spoken in most of Europe and areas of European settlement and in much of Southwest and South Asia. The term Indo-Hittite is used by scholars who believe that Hittite and the other Anatolian languages are not just one branch of Indo-European but rather a branch coordinate with all the rest put together; thus, Indo-Hittite …

Despite the multiple far-fetched proposals of long-range connections between Asian languages and Uralic – e.g. Ural-Altaic, Uralo-Siberian, Eskimo-Uralic, or Uralo-Dravidian – its closest language family is evidently Indo-European, whether by inheritance or by long-lasting intertwined language developments. This supports that Pre-Proto ...

Morphology. 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-'give'), while the stem carries …

care: [verb] to feel trouble or anxiety. to feel interest or concern.

These six families also make up five-sixths of the world’s population. Based on speaker count, Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan are the largest two language families, with over 4.6 billion speakers between them. The two most spoken languages are in these families – English is classified as Indo-European, and Mandarin Chinese is classified as Sino-Tibetan.

Apr 24, 2018 · INDO-EUROPEAN: The hypothetically reconstructed language that was the ancient ancestor of most European, Middle-Eastern, and Indian languages, including English. Some scholars prefer to use the noun-term ...

The Indo-European family tree of languages (alongside the Uralic family) as rendered by Minna Sundberg in her web comic Stand Still, Stay Silent. Moreover, the important ability with respect to these languages is that of reading texts, with or without the help of translations.

Jan 23, 2015 · Minna Sundberg’s illustration maps the relationships between Indo-European and Uralic languages. The creator of the webcomic Stand Still.Stay Silent, put the illustration together to show why ...

This is the English version of Academia Prisca's automatic Proto-Indo-European dictionary-translator.. This translator is based on the Late Proto-Indo-European Etymological Lexicon by Fernando López-Menchero: The work contains correct usage of Late Proto-Indo-European words - with emphasis on North-West Indo-European lexicon -, their proper meaning, derivatives in …

English language, West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family that is closely related to the Frisian, German, and Dutch (in Belgium called Flemish) languages. English originated in England and is the dominant language of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and various island nations in the Caribbean Sea and …