The Indo-European Family of Languages

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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.


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