INDO EUROPEAN FAMILY OF LANGUAGES-MCQ AND 4 MARK QUESTIONS

1.what is the latin form for the word ‘is’? Est

2. What is the greek form for the word ‘ is ‘? Asti

3.Indo European family of languages are formerly called Indo Germanic and Earlier Aryan

4.Indo European is the name given to the set of Linguistic forms.

5. Earlier Aryan used Indo European family of language.

6.European languages as well as those of Persia and very large part of India can be shewn descended.

7. Race , culture and language need not always Correspond or be coextensive

8.Aryan was the name from the Sanskrit aryas noble

9.Indo european is used because it merely suggests that languages comprises cover most of the
European and India

10.The predominance and pioneering position of the Philologists of the nineteenth century sufficiently
accounts for the earlier term Indo Germanic

11. The form Aryan is what we call indo european

12.The term Indo european refers to family of languages which was about 100 BCE were spoken over a
large part of Europe

13. Indo European is the earliest known parent of the English language

14.”Indo” in this term was intended to indicate the Eastern boundary

15.” Germanic “and it’s synonym “ Teutonic” we’re intended to mark the Western boundary of this
territory

16.The family of languages was designated as the Aryan family

17.Which of the Indo european languages below is still learned as the native languages in the 21 st
century is Welsh

18.How many groups are there in the Indo-European language? 8 main groups

19.The eight main groups of Indo European languages are roughly divided into Eastern and western
languages

20 .Indo European assumed primitive form for the numeral 100 is Kmtòm

21.Which among the following remains on its original *K* sound ?Western group

22.In Eastern group Sanskrit has changed the original *k* sound to an Sh(sha) sound

23.In Russian the numeral 100 is called as Sto

24.Western languages are also known as Centum languages

25.Eastern languages are also known as Satem language

26. Indo- Iranian branch can be further divided into Indian and Iranian languages.

27. The only modern remnant from Albanian is Illyria

28.Hellenic means anything that is connected to Greek

29. Which is the most studied Greek dialect Attic

30. English belongs to Germanic group.

5 Marks

1.Explain Eight Main Groups of Indo European Language (page no: 12 -13) [start's from -there are eight
main groups end’s at- mediaeval forms]

2. Explain the characteristics of Indo European languages. (Page no:13-14) [start's from -Indo European
end's - at outside those groups]