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Open Directory - Science:Social Sciences:Linguistics:Languages:Natural:Indo-European:Slavic Bulgarian, also known as Balgarski, is a South Slavic member of the Indo-European language family spoken by approximately 9 million people mainly in Bulgaria with smaller populations in Canada, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Moldova, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine, the United States and the region of the former Republic of Yugoslavia. Polish, also known as Polski and Polnisch, is Lechtic member of the West-Slavic subgroup of the Indo-European language family spoken by approximately 44 million people, 36 million of which are in Poland, the remainder across Europe and as many as 20 countries in total. Serbo-Croatian is a South-Western Slavic member of the Indo-European language family spoken by 21 million people in Macedonia, the former Republic of Yugoslavia and 23 other countries. dmoz.org /Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/Indo-European/Slavic/desc.html   (588 words)

1310 All told, the Indo-European Language Family is spoken by the most people in the world – about half of the world's population speak an Indo-European Language. We've already seen the two theories of how the Indo-European Languages spread. It's the official language in 42 countries, more than any other language...2 billion people live in a country where English is the official language even if they cannot speak it. www.geo.utep.edu /pub/nick_miller/1310/LECTURE_10.html   (1062 words)

Review of “In Quest of Our Linguistic Ancestors: The Elusive Origins of the Indo-Europeans” This is not to imply that there was not a Proto-Indo-European homeland, language and people, simply that the methodology for finding it based on linguistics is still rather crude. Day believes that is lends evidence to the Romans being of “northern European physical type.” But, before we accept such a theory, we might just as well examine the simpleralternative: that the Romans were not very different from modern Italians who are the group of people most likely descended from them. This should not make us forget the fact though, that much of the research “establishing” this fact was traditionally done by people of “northern European physical type” and of Germanic speech (Penka [1], Guenther [2], Childe [3] among many others), or their admirers abroad (e.g., de Lapouge [4], Chamberlain [5], Gobineau [6]). www.angeltowns.net /membercenter/100/dienekes/articles/johnvday   (1062 words)

1310 All told, the Indo-European Language Family is spoken by the most people in the world – about half of the world's population speak an Indo-European Language. We've already seen the two theories of how the Indo-European Languages spread. It's the official language in 42 countries, more than any other language...2 billion people live in a country where English is the official language even if they cannot speak it. www.geo.utep.edu /pub/nick_miller/1310/LECTURE_10.html   (1062 words)

The Museum of Human Language Pidgins and creoles are created when a people from one language group attempt to communicate with another group by imperfectly learning their language. And this is precisely how most pidgin languages get started -- they are attempts of one people who speak one language (substrate) to “do business” with another people who speak a foreign language (superstrate). From sound similarities in cognate words and regular sound changes from Latin to Spanish, linguists know that Spanish is definitely a daughter language of Latin. www.geocities.com /agihard/mohl/mohl_languages.html   (3867 words)

Jared Diamond on the Indo-European conquests If steppe people imposed PIE, their mother tongue, on southeastern Europe as far as Hungary, then it was the resulting daughter Indo-European culture, not the original steppe culture itself, that spread to derived granddaughtter cultures elsewhere in Europe. Thanks to the global expansion of Europeans since 1492 - especially of people from England, Spain, Portugal, France, and Russia - nearly half the world's present population of five billion now speaks an Indo-European language as its native tongue. The apparently European centre of gravity of Indo-European languages as of 1492 was actually an artifact of recent linguistic holocausts in Asia. users.cyberone.com.au /myers/diamond.html   (3867 words)

sciforums.com - >>Proto-Indo-European Religion<< Their language as well as religion (not their modern religion which is basically everybody is Christian, but rather the old pagan traditions) can be traced to a common source some 5000 years back, as can all other Indo-European languages/cultures/religions/genetic groups. Research of the implementation of agriculture and livestock tending in the Eastern European forest zone has become active only recently, and along with innovations in the social and ideological sphere, we may also discover new opportunities to model changes in language. Some people think that these were actually two branches of the same people and that they existed in both places. www.sciforums.com /showthread.php?t=8883   (5199 words)

YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> warrior In 1937 Georges Dumézil famously speculated that Proto-Indo-European society was composed of a priestly class, a warrior class, and a class of commoners or peasants. In some societies, warfare may be so central that the entire people (or, more often, the male population) may be considered warriors, for example the Maori or Germanic tribes. Professional warriors are people who are paid money for engaging in military campaigns and fall into one of two categories: Soldiers; when fighting on behalf of their own state, or Mercenaries; when offering their services commercially and unrelated to their own nationality. www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/warrior   (304 words)

Language: Indo-European The family of special interest to the English-speaking student is the Indo-European, called also Indo-Germanic and Aryan. The Italian language, that is the literary language of Italy, is the Tuscan dialect, an outgrowth of the Latin as spoken by the common people. A dialect which had survived among the common people took the place of the ancient language and is the foundation of the modern Greek. www.factopia.com /aiton-encyclopedia-vol3/language-indo-european.htm   (1547 words)

Indo-European Note one very important principle at work here: the fact that people speak languages from the same family does not mean that their biological families are closely related. Yet many English people can trace some of their genetic heritage back even further, to early human settlement of Western Europe tens of thousands of years ago. In most of Europe the local populations speak their languages because of historical political accidents, not because of a racial connection between descent and language. www.uta.edu /english/tim/courses/4301w00/ie.html   (1547 words)

sciforums.com - >>Proto-Indo-European Religion<< Their language as well as religion (not their modern religion which is basically everybody is Christian, but rather the old pagan traditions) can be traced to a common source some 5000 years back, as can all other Indo-European languages/cultures/religions/genetic groups. Research of the implementation of agriculture and livestock tending in the Eastern European forest zone has become active only recently, and along with innovations in the social and ideological sphere, we may also discover new opportunities to model changes in language. Some people think that these were actually two branches of the same people and that they existed in both places. www.sciforums.com /showthread.php?t=8883   (5190 words)

Gaelic Traditionalist Resource Page - Clannada na Gadelica Long before the current era, people of various races, including Phoenicians, Semites, pre-Indo-European Europeans such as the Basques and Finns, as well as Greeks, Celts, and other Indo-Europeans, all came together in what is now the recognized Gaelic Home Countries. The term "Celt" began being applied to living European people about 300 years ago. The word "Celt" is derived from the word "keltoi" which the ancient Greeks used to denote the European tribes north of them. www.clannada.org /docs/culture.html   (5190 words)

The Indo-European Homeland But this similarity between Greek and Italic is because “when Indo-European languages were brought to Mediterranean people unfamiliar with voiced aspirated stops, this element brought about the process of unvoicing”, The evidence of the oldest literary records of the Indo-European family of languages, the Rigveda and the Avesta, as we have seen, clearly and unambiguously depicts a movement of the “Indo-Iranians” from the east to the west and northwest. This is only imaginable as the result of the complete acculturation of both groups the local Bactrians would have appeared as a typically ‘Vedic’ people with a Vedic civilization.” www.bharatvani.org /books/rig/ch7.htm   (11268 words)

A History of the English Language According to The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, the European languages and Sanskrit, the oldest language of the Indian sub-continent, were tied to a common source. A Germanic language, English is spoken by an estimated 1,500,000,000 people, and that number is ever increasing, according to An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Language and Languages (121). The early history of the English language began in Britain and with several groups of people. linguistics.byu.edu /classes/ling450ch/reports/english2.html   (2437 words)

INDO-EUROPEAN - Definition Aryan; -- applied to the languages of India and Europe which are derived from the prehistoric Aryan language; also, pertaining to the people or nations who speak these languages; as, the Indo-European or Aryan family. [n] a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European \In`do-Eu`ro*pe"an\ A member of one of the Caucasian races of Europe or India speaking an Indo-European language. www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/Indo-European   (174 words)

Indo-Aryan languages --  Encyclopædia Britannica subgroup of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken in India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. From their language, also called Aryan, the Indo-European languages of South Asia are descended. Speakers of the various Indo-Aryan languages live mainly in northern India, and speakers of Dravidian tongues are concentrated in the south. www.britannica.com /eb/article-9109770   (780 words)

IEConcept Today this hypothetical ur-language is called proto-Indo-European (PIE) and the people who are presumed to have spoken it are called the proto-Indo-Europeans. One demonstration of cultural distinctiveness was a distinctive language, and this assumption of a one-to-one correlation between the folk nation and some particular language naturally led scholars considering the "Indo-European problem" to assume the existence of a single cultural group speaking a single language. European philologists had long known that many European languages shared similarities, but in 1786 Sir William Jones demonstrated that the www.unlv.edu /faculty/jmstitt/Eng480/IndoEuropean/IEConcept/IEConcept.html   (205 words)

language families of the world There are about 700 languages in the Indo-Pacific family, most of them in the island of New Guinea, with about 3 million speakers. Mandarin Chinese (Putonghua) alone is spoken by one billion people! With English, one can reach approximately one billion people in the world. www.ship.edu /~cgboeree/languagefamilies.html   (205 words)

Learn more about Aryan invasion theory in the online encyclopedia. While Dravidian languages are primarily confined to the south of India, there is a striking exception: the Brahui, which is spoken in the Indus Valley area, indicating that Dravidian languages were formerly much more widespread and were supplanted by the incoming Indo-European languages such as Sanskrit. The theory further proposes that this race displaced the indigenous Dravidian people and their Indus Valley Culture, and that the bulk of the indigenous people moved to the Southern reaches of the subcontinent. If it were Indo-Aryan it would support the alternative claims. www.onlineencyclopedia.org /a/ar/aryan_invasion_theory.html   (1292 words)

The Homeland of Indo-European Languages and Culture: Some Thoughts In the first place, if the Europeans, on the one hand, and the Indo-Iranians, on the other, had once lived together as agriculturists in Anatolia, they ought to have a common vocabulary for agricultural items, which unfortunately is not the case. Discounting this equation, Renfrew (1999: 268) holds that on the European scene mounted warriors appear only as late as the turn of the second-first millennia BCE and these could in no case have been Gimbutas’s Kurgan warriors predating the facts by some 3,000 years. As explained elsewhere by the present author (in press), the Harappans came in lateral contact with the Southern Neolithic people who, in all probability, were speakers the Dravidian language. www.geocities.com /ifihhome/articles/bbl001.html   (2921 words)

PROTO INDO EUROPEAN DATING Our method of estimating when the presumed single Proto Indo European people began to spread over the worlds is very simple – we assume that we know a sufficient number of the words in the original vocabulary and then calculate what fraction of these words is found at a specific later date. Whether Proto Indo European actually existed as an entity or not there is no dispute that it is possible to derive the vocabulary and form of an older language from later languages. And, more so in Indo European than any other language group, there is a vast amount of information to work with. www.zianet.com /docdavey/piedating.htm   (3847 words)

yourDictionary.com • FAQ • Questions about Language For an idea of which languages developed this way from the original Proto-Indo-European, read "How is a Hippo like a Feather" in our library and take a look at the illustration by clicking here. However, the people speaking these dialects migrated away from the center and the dialects became so strong that people speaking different ones eventually could not understand each other. Type in the language that you need, the gender of the name you want, and the word "names," for example, "Thai boy names." That ought to do it. www.yourdictionary.com /about/substantive.html   (1742 words)

Germanic Languages Gothic was the East Germanic language of the Germanic speaking people who migrated from southern Scania (southern Sweden) to the Ukraine. The West Germanic branch of the Germanic languages is spoken by the Germanic speaking people who occupied the southwestern part of the Germanic homeland. West Norse is the western branch of the North Germanic languages used in Iceland, Ireland, Norway, the Hebrides, Orkney, Shetland, and the Faroe Islands. softrat.home.mindspring.com /germanic.html   (3010 words)

Science Fair Projects - Non-Indo-European roots of Germanic languages The Battle-axe people is an ancient culture identified by archaeology who have been proposed as candidates for the people who influenced Germanic with their non-Indo-European speech. It ventures that the reason for the distinctiveness of the Germanic languages is because they represent, in essence, a creole language: a contact language between Indo-European speakers and a non-Indo-European substrate language spoken by some of the ancestors of the speakers of the Proto-Germanic language. The Germanic substrate hypothesis is a hypothesis that some have ventured that attempts to explain the distinctiveness of the Germanic languages within the Indo-European language family. www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Non-Indo-European_roots_of_Germanic_languages   (885 words)

ipedia.com: Non-Indo-European roots of Germanic languages Article Some people linked to obscure theories of European pre-history believe that the lack of clear cognates among other Indo-European languages is indicative of a mixed origin for the Germanic languages. Some people linked to obscure theories of European pre-history believe that the lack of clear cognates among other Indo-Eur... Etymologies have been proposed for some of these words that link them with Indo-European roots, but these etymologies have no parallels in other Indo-European families in either form or meaning. www.ipedia.com /non_indo_european_roots_of_germanic_languages.html   (547 words)

PROTO INDO EUROPEAN DATING Our method of estimating when the presumed single Proto Indo European people began to spread over the worlds is very simple – we assume that we know a sufficient number of the words in the original vocabulary and then calculate what fraction of these words is found at a specific later date. Whether Proto Indo European actually existed as an entity or not there is no dispute that it is possible to derive the vocabulary and form of an older language from later languages. And, more so in Indo European than any other language group, there is a vast amount of information to work with. www.zianet.com /docdavey/piedating.htm   (3847 words)

The Indo-European Homeland The meanings of the word Druhyu as it occurs in the Celtic branch (“priest”), the Germanic branch (“soldier”, etc. or “people”) and the Baltic-Slavonic branches (“friend”) clearly correspond with the word in the Rigveda and Avesta, where Druhyu/Druh/Drugh/Drogha and Druj represent enemy priests, soldiers or people. These two branches, which remained behind in Central Asia, it is possible, retained contact with the Indoaryans and Iranians further south: the fact that Hittite mythology is the only mythology, outside the Indo-Iranian cultural world, which mentions Indra (as Inar) may be evidence of such contacts. This is because both, the word DAsa and the word Arya, refer to broad secular or tribal entities, while the word Dasyu refers to priestly entities: thus, one would generally say “both Christians and Muslims”, or “both padres and mullahs”, but not “both Christians and mullahs” or “both Muslims and padres”. www.bharatvani.org /books/rig/ch7.htm   (11268 words)

Encyclopedia topic: Indo-European languages In the 19th century (additional info and facts about 19th century), scholars used to call the group "Indo-Germanic languages" or sometimes "Aryan (A member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European) ". Slavic languages (A branch of the Indo European family of language) — attested from the 9th century (additional info and facts about 9th century), earliest texts in Old Church Slavonic (The Slavic language into which the Bible was translated in the 9th Century). However when it became apparent that the connection is relevant to most of Europe's languages, the name was expanded to Indo-European (The family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia). www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/in/indo-european_languages1.htm   (1248 words)

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