By the term Indo -European we are referring to a family of languages which by the time of the second millennium bce were spoken over a large part of Europe and parts of southwestern and southern Asia. Indo-European is essentially a geographical term: it refers to the easternmost (India) and westernmost (Europe) pre-colonial expansion of the family at the time it was proven to be a linguistic group by scholars of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (the term was first used in 1813). Of course, modern developments which have spread Indo-European languages around the world now suggest another name for the family, but the term Indo-European (German Indogermanisch) is now well rooted in the scholarly tradition.
(2018). Indo-European Languages . Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10446/136806
Titolo: | Indo-European Languages | |
Tutti gli autori: | Baldi, Philip; Cuzzolin, Pierluigi | |
Data di pubblicazione: | 2018 | |
Abstract (eng): | By the term Indo -European we are referring to a family of languages which by the time of the second millennium bce were spoken over a large part of Europe and parts of southwestern and southern Asia. Indo-European is essentially a geographical term: it refers to the easternmost (India) and westernmost (Europe) pre-colonial expansion of the family at the time it was proven to be a linguistic group by scholars of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (the term was first used in 1813). Of course, modern developments which have spread Indo-European languages around the world now suggest another name for the family, but the term Indo-European (German Indogermanisch) is now well rooted in the scholarly tradition. | |
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