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A third view, especially prevalent in the so-called French school of Indo-European studies, holds that extant similarities in non-satem languages in general—including Anatolian—might be due to their peripheral location in the Indo-European language-area and to early separation, rather than indicating a special ancestral relationship. [61]
Indo-European–Japanese English–Japanese Bonin English, a mix of Japanese and English Creole[40] Indo-European–Pama–Nyungan English–Warlpiri Light Warlpiri; English–Gurindji Gurindji Kriol; Indo-European–Turkic Greek–Turkish Cappadocian Greek; Indo-European–Semitic Greek–Arabic Cypriot Maronite Arabic; Indo-European-Basque
Eight of the top ten biggest languages, by number of native speakers, are Indo-European. One of these languages, English, is the de facto world lingua franca, with an estimate of over one billion second language speakers. Indo-European language family has 10 known branches or subfamilies, of which eight are living and two are extinct.
For English, a modern English cognate is given when it exists, along with the corresponding Old English form; otherwise, only an Old English form is given. For Gothic, a form in another Germanic language (Old Norse; Old High German; or Middle High German) is sometimes given in its place or in addition, when it reveals important features.
Indo-European [data missing] Nordwestblock: Belgae: Ancient Macedonian: Indo-European: 0–300s AD [3] Macedonia: Ancient Macedonians: Andalusi Arabic: Afroasiatic: 1600s AD [4] Al-Andalus: Andalusi Muslims Andalusi Romance: Indo-European: 1300s AD [5] Al-Andalus: Mozarabs and Muladí: Antrim Irish: Indo-European: 25 February 1983 [6] County ...
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Uropi is a constructed language which was created by Joël Landais, a French English teacher. Uropi is a synthesis of European languages, explicitly based on the common Indo-European roots and aims at being used as an international auxiliary language for Europe and thus contributing to building a European identity.
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 ...