The Indo-European Family of Languages
Latin
Also called the Italic or Romance Languages
Cornish, Gaulish, Cumbrian, Manx, Pictish and Galatian
Celtic languages that are extinct.
Welsh
Has the word order for Verb-Subject-Object
Indo-Germanic Language
In the 19th century scholars used to call the group-
Subject-Object-Verb
Latin's sentence structure.
Latin
One of the most important classical languages
Franz Bopp
Supported the theory of Sir William Jones
150 languages
The Indo-European languages include how many languages spoken by 3 billion people?
Danish, Norwegian and Swedish
The Three of the four scandinavian langauges that belong to the germanic branch.
Proto-Indo-European
The common ancestral language is called
Latin,Greek,Sanskrit and Persian
The four oldest languages known in William Jones' time
Indo-European
The most widely used language family in the world is
Sir William Jones
Who was the philologist who proposed a hypothesis regarding the similarities between the four oldest languages
Grimm's Law
a sound shift that took place in all the Germanic languages, distinguishing them from the other non-Germanic Indo-European languages.
Provincial and Catalan
are closely related languages spoken in the south of France and the north-east of Spain
Italian and Portuguese
are the closest modern major languages to latin
Gothic, Frankish, Lombardo, Visigoth and Vandal
extinct languages of the Germanic Branch.
Spanish
has been influenced by Arabic and Basque.
French
has moved the farthest from Latin in pronunciation.
Romanian
has picked up the Slavic influences because it is a Latin language surrounded by a sea of Slavic speakers.
LAtin
has three-genders and at least six cases for its nouns and a Subject-Object-Verb sentence structure.
Verb-Subject-Object
in what order does welsh have?
Galician
is a Portuguese dialect with Celtic influences spoken in the north west of spain.
Moldavian
is a dialect of Romanian spoken in the Moldova
Romansh
is a minority language in Switzerland.
Germanic languages
make one of the branches of the Indo-European (IE) group of tongues.
Dalmatian, Oscan, Faliscan, Sabine and Umbrian
the extinct languages in the Latin Branch.
Celtic Branch
the smallest branch among the 12 Indo-European branches.
Ladin
was the language spoken by Spain's Jewish population when they were expelled in 1492.
