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
