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    The document discusses language families and their branches. It introduces the Indo-European language family as the most widely studied, which is divided into twelve branches containing existing languages. It then provides brief overviews of the different branches, including the Germanic, Latin, Slavic, Baltic, Hellenic, Anatolian, Thracian, Iranian, and Indic branches, noting some examples of languages within each branch and their historical regions.

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    Language families and branches

    Lidia Escalona Vidal

    What is a language family?


    A language family is a group of languages related by a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family of language families is based on the assumption that over time languages gradually diverge into dialects and then into new languages.

    The most widely studied language family in the world is the Indo-European. There are a number of reasons for this: These languages are official or co-official in many countries and are important in academic, technical and world organisations. Examples: English, Spanish, French, German, Russian.

    The Indo-European Family is divided into twelve branches, ten of which contain existing languages. I will describe each of these branches separately.

    Germanic Tokharian Celtic

    Indic

    Latin

    Iranian

    Prtoo-Indo-European

    Slavic

    Thracian

    Baltic

    Anatolian Illyric

    Hellenic

    Proto-Indo-European Languages
    Welsh

    Celtic

    S p o k e n i n

    Ireland

    Scotland

    Breton

    Proto-Indo-European Languages
    English

    Germanic

    S p o k e n i n

    Dutch

    German

    Frisian

    Proto-Indo-European Languages
    Italian

    Latin

    S p o k e n i n

    Portuguese Spanish French

    Romanian

    Proto-Indo-European Languages
    Welsh

    Slavic

    S p o k e n i n

    Croatian and Siberian Bulgarian

    Almost the same The oldest in this branch The most known

    Derived from Greek

    Russian

    Proto-Indo-European Languages

    Baltic

    S p o k e n i n

    Lithuanian

    Latin script
    Latvian

    Proto-Indo-European Languages
    Modern Greek

    Helle nic

    S p o k e n i n

    Mycenaean

    Doric

    Proto-Indo-European Languages

    Illyric

    Spoken only by

    Albanian

    Proto-Indo-European Languages
    Hittite
    In Anatolia

    Anatolian

    S p o k e n b y

    Lydian Lycrian Luwian


    By Hellenic

    Ancient Troy

    Palaic

    Proto-Indo-European Languages

    Thracian

    Spoken only by

    Armenian

    Proto-Indo-European Languages

    Spoken only by

    Iranian

    Ancient Persian

    Proto-Indo-European Languages

    Indic

    Derived from

    Sanskrit (North India)

    Proto-Indo-European Languages
    Already extincted

    Tokharian

    Was spoken by Turfanian and Kuchean

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