Indo-European

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• The Kurds speak an Indo-European language quite unrelated to Arabic.

  Academic text (2005)

• The final splitting up of the Proto-Indo-European complex can be dated to a period between 3000 and 2700 B.C.

  Academic text (2000)

• Languages outside the Indo-European family are different in ways you can't imagine until you experience them.

  Academic text (2007)

• Understanding other Indo-European languages gives us an idea of what Proto-Indo-European looked like.

  Blog text (31)

• Tocharian belongs to the Indo-European language family, which includes many languages from Europe, Iran, and northern India.

  Academic text (2010)

• After migrating first to central Europe, a number of Indo-European tribes reached the top of the Italian peninsula and began moving southward around 1,000 B.C., conquering the native peoples in their path.

  Academic text (2004)

• As a member of Celtic, a distinct language branch within the Indo-European family of languages, Irish-Gaelic holds the distinction of possessing the third oldest vernacular literary tradition in Europe (Greene 1966: 11).

  Academic text (2001)

• We conjecture that the use of the horse, at first to ride, then to haul, and finally in battle, gave such an advantage to the Indo-Europeans that they were able not only to conquer the more settled societies, but to dominate them indefinitely, so that their languages came to prevail, just as English (one of the Indo-European languages) is spreading today.

  Fiction book (1994)

• English is one of the many languages derived from the Indo-European family, sharing common roots with languages like Spanish and Hindi.

• The study of Indo-European languages provides insight into the historical connections between diverse cultures across Europe and Asia.

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