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Indo-European language   /ˌɪndoʊjˌʊrəpˈiən lˈæŋgwədʒ/   Listen
Indo-European language

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1.
The family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia.  Synonyms: Indo-European, Indo-Hittite.






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"Indo-European language" Quotes from Famous Books



... class, the Cymric; while the Irish with its varieties, as developed in Scotland and the Isle of Man, forms another class, which is called the Gaelic or Gadhelic. It may also be more or less generally known that Celtic, with all its dialects, is an Aryan or Indo-European language, closely allied to Latin, Greek, German, Slavonic, and Sanskrit, and that the Celts, therefore, were not mere barbarians, or people to be classed together with Finns and Lapps, but heralds of true civilization wherever they ...
— Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. • F. Max Mueller



Words linked to "Indo-European language" :   Germanic, Balto-Slavic language, Balto-Slavic, italic, Hellenic, Celtic, natural language, Armenian, Indo-Iranian, Hellenic language, Balto-Slavonic, Illyrian, Anatolian, tongue, Thraco-Phrygian, Armenian language, Tocharian, Celtic language, Anatolian language, Italic language, Indo-Hittite, Indo-Iranian language, pie, Germanic language, Albanian, Greek, Proto-Indo European



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