Today the most widespread language group in the world. The following branches make up Indo-European: Indo-Iranian, Tocharian, Armenian, Anatolian, Albanian, Greek, Italic (and its modern offshoots, the Romance languages), Slavic, Baltic (the latter...

The Indo-European languages form the best-known, most widely spoken, and best-explored family of undoubtedly genetically related languages. Genetically related languages are demonstrably derived from a common ancestor, a "Proto-Language,"...

Indo-European language speakers native to China are represented principally by Tajiks and Russians. The mother tongue of most Tajiks is Tajik, a language of Indo-Iranian group, but a number speak Uighur, a Turkic language. Tajik spoken in China lacks a...

(IE) the designation for the family of nations who speak languages which show certain common features in the structure of their grammar and in vocabulary as well as some traces of a culture which they once shared. It includes all European languages...

     Countries with a majority of speakers of IE languages      Countries with an IE minority language with official...

Language and linguistics LEHMANN, WINFRED P. Pre-Indo-European. xvi, 287 pp., bibliogr. Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man, 2002. $52.00 (paper) Over the past few decades, much work on Indo-European has been conducted from perspectives informed by the recent findings...

This long-awaited English version of an already famous work appears in a two-volume format, differing from that of the Russian original. The first volume contains the languages and their written sources, a methodological introduction, phonology and morphophonology, morphology and syntax, dialectology, lexicon, homeland...

As snow fell outside, the smell of frying eggplant and onions burned Umm Ali's eyes as she cooked in her kitchen _ which doubles as the family bathroom. There's not much else: one other room for her, her husband and four children.Still, she says, it's...