Indo-European


Sir William Jones, a judge in British India during the late 1700s, read ancient Sanskrit texts in his spare time (and I thought my hobby here was odd). To everyone's surprise, however, he found that Sanskrit, and therefore its Indic language descendents, were somehow related to the language families of Europe. It became clear that the ancestors of these families were themselves descendents of an even older language, Proto-Indo- European. Thus the Indo-European superfamily includes ten branches: Celtic, Germanic, Romance, Greek, Balto-Slavic, Armenian, Albanian, Indo-Iranian, and two dead branches, Anatolian and Tocharian. It is truly astounding to realise that Indo-European languages are the dominant languages on over four of the six inhabited continents (Europe, North and South America, Australia, as well as Russia and the Indian subcontinent of Asia). Other Indo-European languages not yet represented include Albanian, Armenian, Latvian, and Lithuanian.


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Bengali:

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Bosnian:

Ne govorim Bosanski ali znam da je divan jezik.
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Breton:

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Catalan:

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Croatian:

Ne znam govoriti hrvatski, ali mislim da je jezik prelijep.
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Danish:

Jeg kan ikke tale dansk, men det er et smok sprog.
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Dutch:

Ik spreek geen nederlands, maar het is een prachtige taal.
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I can't speak English but it's a beautiful language.
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German: Hear It

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Irish: Hear It

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Latin: Hear It

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Russian: Hear It

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Slovak: Hear It

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Spanish: European Spanish: Hear It

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