Are Semitic and Indo-European languages at all related?
2017年1月12日 · As for Proto-Indo-European influence on Semitic, there don't seem to be any Proto-Indo-European words which are attested in all branches of Semitic. Individual words …
Is Sanskrit really the mother of all languages?
2019年9月4日 · Rather, Sanskrit and those other languages all share a common ancestor, called "Proto-Indo-European" (or "Proto-Indogermanic"), which was spoken somewhere between …
historical linguistics - Which Indo European language best …
2017年7月20日 · As several others have said, older languages like Hittite, Sanskrit, Avestan, Greek, and Latin definitely have more in common with Proto-Indo-European (PIE) as they are …
Is there any agglutinative Indo-European language?
Generally, all Indo-European Anatolian languages had some kind of agglutinative qualities, apparently because of the substratum languages that were agglutinative e.g. Hattic and …
historical linguistics - What is the relationship of Proto-Indo ...
2020年4月14日 · Indo-European and Germanic are language families, not individual languages, and Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Germanic are each the single language that is the …
How many vowels and how many consonants did the Proto-Indo …
2016年5月13日 · Reconstructed Indo-European is essentially a set of quasi-algebraic symbols for the purpose of establishing regular sound correspondences between the attested languages. …
Evolution of Definite Articles in Indo-European Languages
2015年5月11日 · Almost all Indo-european languages spoken in Europe have both definite and indefinite articles - for instance, all Germanic languages and Romance languages have them …
What is the origin of non-natural grammatical genders in Indo …
Another route, which might be more likely for Indo-European languages, is sound shifts. The markings for two genders become similar for all/some words and the two genders merge. Or, …
comparative linguistics - Is there any modern Indo-European …
2023年12月22日 · this passive is in fact present in all the modern North Germanic (Scandinavian) languages! It has its origin in the reflexive pronoun being suffixed to the verb (and does not …
What were the westernmost and easternmost Indo-European …
2016年1月6日 · The easternmost Indo-European language is Assamese, spoken in the extreme east of India. The now extinct Tocharian language (sc. Turfanian) was spoken around Turfan …