Indo-European Family Languages

Indo-European Family Languages por Gilbert Romero

1. Literary tradition

1.1. refers to a system of written communication.

2. Language

2.1. is a system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning.

3. collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display similar grammar and vocabulary.

4. collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language.

5. Language Groups:

6. Language Branches:

7. Language Families

8. World’s languages organized into:

9. Derive from

10. Originally lived around Ukraine and the neighboring regions in the Caucasus and southern Russia, then spread to most of the rest of Europe and later to India.

11. Definition:

12. From a hypothetical language known as Proto-Indo-European, which is no longer spoken.

13. The Indo-European languages are a family of related languages that today are widely spoken in the Americas, Europe, and also Western and Southern Asia.

14. Collection of languages related through a common ancestral language.

15. Important Terms

16. Where they lived and spread

17. 4 main group

18. which are

18.1. Italic

18.1.1. Italian Spanish Romanian French Portuguese

18.2. Celtic

18.2.1. Irish Gaelic Scottich Gaelic Welsh

18.3. Germanic

18.3.1. English German Swedish-Norwegian- Iselandic- Duts- Danish

18.4. Slavic

18.4.1. Russian-Bulgarian-Macedonian-Slovenian- Serbian-Croatian

19. Albanian

19.1. Albanian is the last branch of Indo-European languages to appear in written form. There are two hypotheses on the origin of Albanian.

20. Balto-Slavic

20.1. This branch contains two sub-branches: Baltic and Slavic. During the late Bronze Age, the Balts' territory may have stretched from around western Poland and after they occupied a small region along the Baltic Sea.

21. Tocharian

21.1. The history of the Tocharian-speaking people is still surrounded by mystery. We know that they lived in the Taklamakan Desert, located in western China.

22. Armenian

22.1. The origins of the Armenian-speaking people is a topic still unresolved.

23. Germanic

23.1. The Germanic branch is divided in three sub-branches: East Germanic, currently extinct; North Germanic.

24. Celtic

24.1. This branch contains two sub-branches: Continental Celtic and Insular Celtic.

25. Italic

25.1. This branch was predominant in the Italian peninsula.

26. Rather than a branch of languages, Greek is a group of dialects

27. Greek

28. Indo-Iranian

29. This branch includes two sub-branches: Indic and Iranian.

30. This branch of languages was predominant in the Asian portion of Turkey and some areas in northern Syria.

31. Anatolia

32. Branches of Indo-European Languages

33. Devide into