Pamela Sanhueza C.

means

Most studied language family Indo European

why
Because these languages are official or co-official in many
countries and are essential in different fields
 Languages spoken by more than half of world’s
population as L1 or L2

Languages of religion, culture and philosophy belong to

the Indo European language family

Indo-European Family origin

In the forest north of the Black Sea during the Neolithic .

 Celtic Branch
Tokharian Germanic
Branch Branch

Indic Branch Latin Branch

I-E
Iranian
Branch 12 Slavic Branch
branches

Thracian
Baltic Branch
Branch

Anatolian Hellenic
Branch Branch
Illyc Branch
 Celtic
Branch origin Central Europe/Western Europe

Welsh
languages Irish Gaelic

Scottish Gaelic

Breton
 Cornish Manx
 Gaulish Pictish extinct languages
 Cumbrian Galatian
 Germanic
Branch origin from Old Norse and Saxon

English
languages Dutch (Flemish/Africaans “varieties”)
German (Yiddish “variety”)
Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

 Gothic
 Frankish
 Lombardo extinct languages
 Visigoth
 Vandal
 Latin also called Italic or Romance Languages
Branch Italian
Portuguese (Galician) dialect
languages Spanish
French
Romanian (Moldavian) dialect
Romansh
Ladino
Provincial
Catalan

 Dalmatian Sabine
 Oscan Umbrian extinct languages
 Faliscan
The Slavic confined to Eastern Europe
Branch

Bulgarian
Russian (the most important)
Poland (Kashubian) spoken in parts of Poland
languages Sorbian
Czech
Slovak
Slovene
Macedonian
Bosnian
Ukrainian
Byelorussian
 Baltic just two Baltic Languages
Branch

Lithuanian

languages
Latvian

Prussian is an extinct language of the Baltic

branch
 Hellenic
just Modern Greek
Branch

Ancient Greek was written from around 700 BC

Doric from Sparta

Ionic from Cos
Mayor forms
Aeolic from Lesbos
Attic from Athens
 Illyric single language branch
Branch

languages Albanian (two dialects)

Geg Tosk

Illyric and Mesapian are considered extinct languages

 Anatolian
all languages are extinct
Branch

Lydian
Lycian
Extinct languages
Luwian
Palaic
 Thracian represented by a single language
Branch Armenian

has its own script

Armenian
(extinct languages)

Dacian Thracian Phrygian

 Iranian
languages descended from
Branch
Ancient Persian

main language Farsi

second large language Kurdish

other languages Pashto, Baluchi, Ossetian, Tadzhik

extinct languages Avestan, Scythian

 Indic has the most languages that are
Branch derived from Sanskrit

Pali Kashmiri
languages Ardhamagadhi Sindhi
Indi Gujarati
Urdu Konkani
Nepali Sinhalese
Bengali Maldivian
Bhili
Oriya
Marathi
Assamese
Punjabi and Lahnda
Maithili and Maghadi
Tokharian
two extinct languages identified
Branch

Turfanian Kuchean

those languages were once spoken in

north west China