Indo-European language

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• In it, Gobineau drew on the discoveries made by Orientalists such as William Jones that there was a common Aryan source for Indo-European languages such as Sanskrit, Persian, Greek, Latin, and German.

  Academic text (1995)

• 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 an Indo-European language, and understanding other Indo-European languages helps you understand how English works!

  Blog text (31)

• 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)

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

  Academic text (2005)

• Sinhalese people later migrated to the island from the Ganges Valley, bringing their Indo-European language with them.

  Academic text (2007)

• English is one of the most widely spoken Indo-European languages today.

• Many scholars study the evolution of the Indo-European languages to understand how they relate to each other.

• Sanskrit, an ancient Indo-European language, has significantly influenced modern languages like Hindi and English.

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