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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 has been used for a family ...
6. Feb. 2019 · In the 16th century, European visitors to the Indian subcontinent began to notice similarities among Indo-Aryan, Iranian, and European languages. In 1583, English Jesuit missionary and Konkani scholar Thomas Stephens wrote a letter from Goa to his brother (not published until the 20th century) in which he noted similarities between Indian languages and Greek and Latin.
For a list of words relating to Indo-European languages, see the Indo-European languages category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Indo-European languages include some 443 ( SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken by about three billion people, including most of the major language families of Europe and western Asia.
The comparative method was formally developed in the 19th century and applied first to Indo-European languages. The existence of the Proto-Indo-Europeans had been inferred by comparative linguistics as early as 1640, while attempts at an Indo-European proto-language reconstruction date back as far as 1713. However, by the 19th century, still no ...
Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. Fitzroy Dearborn, London 1997, ISBN 1-884964-98-2; Georges-Jean Pinault: La langue poétique indo-européenne – actes du colloque de travail de la Société des Études Indo-Européennes. Leuven, Peeters, 2006, ISBN 90-429-1781-4; Colin Renfrew: Archaeology and Language. The Puzzle of Indo-European ...
The Proto-Indo-European homeland was the prehistoric linguistic homeland of the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE). From this region, its speakers migrated east and west, and went on to form the proto-communities of the different branches of the Indo-European language family. The most widely accepted proposal about the location of the Proto ...
Languages like English, which don't have a lot of combinations like that, come from earlier, more typical Indo-European languages. English comes from Anglo-Saxon , a Western Germanic language. The fact that English once was synthetic like German is shown by cranberry morphemes , which are so called because the "cran-" is a fossil of a word that no longer exists.
