Indo- European Language

What is the definition of Indo-European?

1. The ancestral Proto-Indo-European language. 2. a speaker of an Indo-European language, especially Proto-Indo-European.

How many people speak an Indo-European language as their native language?

About 46% of people on earth speak an Indo-European language

What are the 10 branches of Indo European?

Anatolian, Indo-Iranian, Greek, Italic, Celtic, Germanic, Armenian, Tocharian, Balto-Slavic and Albanian

How long ago was Proto-Indo European spoken?

Around 6500 years ago on the Eurasian steppe of eastern Ukraine, Southern Russia, and the Caucasus

What does Centum mean?

Centum is the word for 100 in Latin

What are Germanic branch facts?

English is related to German The Germanic language branch includes North Germanic languages. Low Germanic languages include Dutch and Flemish.

What languages are in the Indo-European group?

English, Hindi, Persian, Russian, Armenian, Greek

Where did the Indo- Europeans first migrate?

Europe, Anatolia, Central Asia, later Northern India and Iran

What are Indo-Iranian languages?

Hindi and there 400+ languages

What is writing in ancient Indo-European?

Hittite, Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Avestan. Intermediate steps in many branches of the family after about 900 CE

What are Indo-Iranian countries?

India is an Indo-Iranian countries

What is Sino-Tibetan?

It is second, to Indo-European, most widely spoken language family in Europe.*The Sino-Tibetan languages with the most native speakers are the Chinese languages.

Who spoke Proto Indo European?

It was spoken by people who lived roughly from 4500 to 2500 B.C and left no written texts.

What patterns that researchers begin to see?

Regular sound correspondence Rules could be developed to predict the sound in one related language from the form of a word in another- Applying those rules it became possible to hypothesize the ancient ancestor language (Proto-Indo-European)

What are Balto-Slavic languages?

Russian, Ukranian, Belorusian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Polish, Czech, Slovak

What does Satem mean?

Satem is the word for 100 in Avestan

What are modern classification methods?

Systematic Sound Correspondence is crucial Rules of sound change over time Ability to reconstruct a hypothetical ancestor

What is the archaeological evidence about the start of Indo- European language

That the Indo- European language began in Anatolia several thousand years earlier and spread with the expansion of agriculture

What are the two groups that separate the languages?

The Satem languages and The Centum languages

How big is the Indo-European family

There are about 445 living Indo-European languages, with over two thirds of them belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch.

What do all Indo- European countries have in common?

They all developed from Proto-Indo European

What did the Indo- European do with horses?

They were the first people to domesticate horses, which increased their ability to travel and migrate

How is Balto-Slavic divided?

This branch can be divided into East, West, South Slavic and Baltic groups

What are Balto-Slavic countries?

Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia

What is the description of Indo-European?

relating to the family of languages spoken over the greater part of Europe and Asia as far as northern India