Indoeuropean language family

The family of languages is the second-oldest in the worl only behind the Afroasiatic family (which includes the languages of ancient Egypt and early Semitic languages ). It comprises 4living languages , representing 6. Some three billion or 46. Indo European language family. Historically, this language family was also important in Anatolia and Central Asia. Phyla with historically wide geographical distributions but comparatively few current-day speakers include Eskimo–Aleut, Na-Dené, Algic, Quechuan and Nilo-Saharan. A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language , called the proto- language of that family.

The term family reflects the tree model of language origination in historical linguistics, which makes use of a metaphor comparing languages to people in a biological family tree, or in a subsequent modification, to species in a. Especially important are the shared patterns of alternation. Finnish, Hungarian and Estonian belong to the Uralic (also called Finno-Ugric) family , and Basque (spoken in the Pyrenees region) has no genetic relation to any other language. Two branches, Anatolian and. The vocab is either a language group, family or a branch. The definition will give you either a language , group, or branch.

You have to type the vocab of the space on the tree below it. At least 1languages families have been identified throughout the worl each of them belonging to a different linguistic family. These languages are official or co-official in many countries and are important in academic, technical and world organisations. From Latin or French as we meet it in literature we get an impression of something uniform and relatively fixed.

Language Constantly Changing. It is clear that the word for ‘water’ looks very similar within each group, but not quite as similar across groups. We used Bayesian phylogeographic approaches, together with basic vocabulary data from 103. Indo-European languages - Indo-European languages - The parent language : Proto- Indo-European : By comparing the recorded Indo-European languages , especially the most ancient ones, much of the parent language from which they are descended can be reconstructed.

This reconstructed parent language is sometimes called simply Indo-European , but in this article the term Proto- Indo-European is. Indo-European is a language family which is comprised of most of the languages of Europe and parts of Asia. About half the population of the world speaks an Indo-European language. For much of the past 2years more scholars have worked on the comparative philology of IE than on all the other areas of linguistics put together. This theoretical ancestor is referred to as quot;Proto- Indo-European.

White labels indicate. Written Persian is transcribed by a modified version of Arabic script, even though Persian is a member of the Indo-European family of languages. In the 16th century AD. Bantu, Khoisan, and Indo-European languages are spoken in Botswana.

It is not of Semitic origin nor an Arab or Persian dialect, but a distinct language from the Indo-European family. Words in modern Indo-European languages have several sources. English language , a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family that is closely related to Frisian, German, and Dutch languages.

It originated in England and is the dominant language of the U. Canada, Australia, Irelan and New Zealand. It has become the world’s lingua franca.