RELEVANT ASPECTS OF CODESWITCHING, BILINGUALISM, INTERLANGUAGE AND PLURALISM
by Asdrubal Rivera
1. Balto-Slavic
1.1. This branch contains two sub-branches
1.1.1. Baltic
1.1.1.1. Only two Baltic languages survive today: Latvian and Lithuanian
1.1.2. Slavic
1.1.2.1. A large number of Slavic languages survive today, such as Bulgarian, Czech, Croatian, Polish, Serbian, Slovak, Russian
2. Greek
2.1. Rather than a branch of languages, Greek is a group of dialects
2.2. During more than 3000 years of written history, Greek dialects never evolved into mutually incomprehensible languages.
3. INTERLANGUAGE
3.1. Most European languages belong to the Indo-European language family. The proto-language of this family (known as "Proto-Indo-European" or simply "Indo-European") emerged in far eastern Europe, from where it spread westward across Europe and eastward into Asia.
3.1.1. This great Indo-European expansion occurred primarily during the period ca. 2000-1000 BC.1