What are the 4 branches of Indo-European?

Branches. The Indo-European language family has four main living branches: Indo-Iranian, Balto-Slavic, Germanic, and Italic.

What branch of the Indo-European language tree is English?

West Germanic language
English language, West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family that is closely related to the Frisian, German, and Dutch (in Belgium called Flemish) languages.

What is Indo-European family briefly describe different family languages of Indo-European family?

The Indo-European family is divided into several branches or sub-families, of which there are eight groups with languages still alive today: Albanian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic, Celtic, Germanic, Hellenic, Indo-Iranian, and Italic; and another six subdivisions which are now extinct.

What do Indo European languages have in common?

The chief reason for grouping the Indo-European languages together is that they share a number of items of basic vocabulary, including grammatical affixes, whose shapes in the different languages can be related to one another by statable phonetic rules.

What defines Indo European languages?

Definition of Indo-European languages : a family of languages comprising those spoken in most of Europe and in the parts of the world colonized by Europeans since 1500 and also in Persia, the subcontinent of India, and some other parts of Asia.

Was Dacian a Thracian language?

In ancient times, Strabo states that the Dacians spoke the same language as the Getae and later he states that the Getae spoke the same as the Thracians, which means that more or less Dacian was Thracian. However, Strabo was a geographer not a dedicated linguist that we can rely on with full confidence.

Was Thracian a centum 4 language?

That means that although Thracian was a satem language in classical years, proto-Thracian might have been centum 4. Those partially satem characteristics and the similarities of Thracian to the Baltic group suggest that an ancestral Thraco-Dacian people was settled in Dacia until part of it migrated into Thrace.

What happened to the Thracian language?

Thracian language disappeared in 5thor 6thlanguage AD, as Thracians were assimilated by Romans, Slavs and Bulgars, and no scientist now is brave enough to write a monograph about this language (there is just one work – “The Language of the Thracians” by Bulgarian linguist Georgiev).

How closely related were the Phrygian and Illyrian languages?

Back in time, it was believed that Thracian, Illyrian and Phrygian shared a development which showed that they were still closely related in late prehistoric times: a ‘sound-shift’ which had affected the occlusive consonants (‘stops’) of Indo-European.