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Indo-european
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From a lexical point of view, Esperanto appears to be an Indo-European language, but structurally it is an isolating language, like Chinese.
Armenian is an Indo-European language.
English and French are Indo-European languages.
Japanese is not a Indo-European language.
Latin is an Indo-European language.
Berber is not an Indo-European language.
Berber isn't an Indo-European language and it belongs to a completely different ethnolinguistic bloc.
Hungarian, although spoken in Europe, is not considered an Indo-European language, just like Finnish and Basque.
Bodo is a Tibeto-Burman language, as opposed to Assamese, which is an Indo-European language.
Dogri is a tonal language, which makes it rare among Indo-European languages.
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Two theories of the origins of the Indo-Europeans currently compete. M. Gimbutas believes that early Indo-Europeans entered southeastern Europe from the Pontic Steppes starting ca. 4500 B.C. and spread from there. C. Renfrew equates early Indo-Europeans with early farmers who entered southeastern Europe from Asia Minor ca. 7000 BC and spread through the continent.
Thus, although at least one term for ‘alder’ can be reconstructed to PIE, the wide distribution of this tree prevents it from being diagnostic of the earlier location of the Indo-Europeans.
To the same direction points a recent revelation made by Professor Henning who identifies the Gutians or Kutians and Tukres of the ancient Near East that occur in the cuneiform inscriptions of the end of the 3rd millennium B.C. with historical Kuchi-Tocharians, this being the earliest appearance of the Indo-Europeans in history (cf. W. Henning, the first Indo-Europeans in history, "Society and History." […]).
We Indo-Europeans are crazy about three! We see the world as earth, sky, water. We see things as having a beginning, a middle, and an end. Do you want a third example? Sure you do—you're Indo-European!
The sale of looted items persisted for a month, and quick profits were made by burghers and Indo-Europeans.
Of the great Indo-European family of languages the general principal was also that of one name for each individual[…]
As there is no evidence for Indo-European apiculture, we have to reckon with foreign origin for κηρός […].
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