Indo-European language family

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• Indo-European language — noun the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia • Syn: ↑Indo European, ↑Indo Hittite • Hypernyms: ↑natural language, ↑tongue • Hyponyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• Indo-European languages — Indo European redirects here. For other uses, see Indo European (disambiguation). See also: List of Indo European languages Indo European Geographic distribution: Before the 16th century, Europe, and South, Central and Southwest Asia; today… …   Wikipedia

• Proto-Indo-European language — PIE redirects here. For other uses, see PIE (disambiguation). Indo European topics Indo European languages (list) Albanian · Armenian · Baltic Celtic · Germanic · Greek Indo Ira …   Wikipedia

• Language family — See also: List of language families A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto language of that family. The term family comes from the tree model of language origination in… …   Wikipedia

• Indo-European — 1. noun a) A major language family which includes many of the native languages of Europe, Western Asia and India, with notable Indic, Iranian and European sub branches. b) Proto Indo European …   Wiktionary

• Indo-European languages — Family of languages with the greatest number of speakers, spoken in most of Europe and areas of European settlement and in much of southwestern and southern Asia. They are descended from a single unrecorded language believed to have been spoken… …   Universalium

• Indo-European studies — is a field of linguistics dealing with Indo European languages, both current and extinct. Its goal is to amass information about the hypothetical proto language from which all of these languages are descended, a language dubbed Proto Indo… …   Wikipedia

• Indo-European — [in΄dō yoor΄ə pē′ən] adj. designating or of a family of languages that includes most of those spoken in Europe and many of those spoken in southwestern Asia and India n. 1. the Indo European family of languages: its principal branches are… …   English World dictionary

• Indo-European — ► NOUN 1) the family of languages spoken over the greater part of Europe and Asia as far as northern India. 3) a speaker of an Indo European language. ► ADJECTIVE ▪ relating to Indo European languages …   English terms dictionary

• Indo-European — /in doh yoor euh pee euhn/, n. 1. a large, widespread family of languages, the surviving branches of which include Italic, Slavic, Baltic, Hellenic, Celtic, Germanic, and Indo Iranian, spoken by about half the world s population: English, Spanish …   Universalium

• Indo-European — In•do Eu•ro•pe•an [[t]ˈɪn doʊˌyʊər əˈpi ən[/t]] n. 1) peo a family of languages spoken or formerly spoken in Europe and SW, central, and S Asia, and carried by colonization and conquest since c1500 to many other parts of the world: major branches …   From formal English to slang