Indo-European
From Langmaker
Indo-European (IE), or more correctly Proto-Indo-European, is the reconstructed ancestral language of over 100 living and extinct descendants or daughter languages (see charts), including most of the languages of Europe. [Exceptions include languages from the Ural-Altaic family, such as Finnish and Hungarian, and linguistic isolates such as Basque.] The speakers of IE apparently flourished in central Asia at some time around 4000 BCE. The language has been reconstructed through the well-established comparative method, using evidence from documented languages to establish regular correspondences between languages not attributable to mere chance resemblance, and from these to reconstitute their probable source.
[edit]
External Links
- An index of IE roots
- On the internal classification of Indo-European languages from Linguistica Online, Nov. 2005.
- The Indo-European Documentation Center at the University of Texas.
