1. Pamela Sanhueza C.

2. means
Most studied language family Indo European
why
Because these languages are official or co-official in many
countries and are essential in different fields

3. Languages spoken by more than half of world’s
population as L1 or L2
Languages of religion, culture and philosophy belong to
the Indo European language family
Indo-European Family origin
In the forest north of the Black Sea during the Neolithic .

4. Celtic Branch
Tokharian Germanic
Branch Branch
Indic Branch Latin Branch
I-E
Iranian
Branch 12 Slavic Branch
branches
Thracian
Baltic Branch
Branch
Anatolian Hellenic
Branch Branch
Illyc Branch

5. Celtic
Branch origin Central Europe/Western Europe
Welsh
languages Irish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic
Breton
 Cornish Manx
 Gaulish Pictish extinct languages
 Cumbrian Galatian

6. Germanic
Branch origin from Old Norse and Saxon
English
languages Dutch (Flemish/Africaans “varieties”)
German (Yiddish “variety”)
Danish, Norwegian, Swedish
 Gothic
 Frankish
 Lombardo extinct languages
 Visigoth
 Vandal

7. Latin also called Italic or Romance Languages
Branch Italian
Portuguese (Galician) dialect
languages Spanish
French
Romanian (Moldavian) dialect
Romansh
Ladino
Provincial
Catalan
 Dalmatian Sabine
 Oscan Umbrian extinct languages
 Faliscan

8. The Slavic confined to Eastern Europe
Branch
Bulgarian
Russian (the most important)
Poland (Kashubian) spoken in parts of Poland
languages Sorbian
Czech
Slovak
Slovene
Macedonian
Bosnian
Ukrainian
Byelorussian

9. Baltic just two Baltic Languages
Branch
Lithuanian
languages
Latvian
Prussian is an extinct language of the Baltic
branch

10. Hellenic
just Modern Greek
Branch
Ancient Greek was written from around 700 BC
Doric from Sparta
Ionic from Cos
Mayor forms
Aeolic from Lesbos
Attic from Athens

11. Illyric single language branch
Branch
languages Albanian (two dialects)
Geg Tosk
Illyric and Mesapian are considered extinct languages

12. Anatolian
all languages are extinct
Branch
Lydian
Lycian
Extinct languages
Luwian
Palaic

13. Thracian represented by a single language
Branch Armenian
has its own script
Armenian
(extinct languages)
Dacian Thracian Phrygian

14. Iranian
languages descended from
Branch
Ancient Persian
main language Farsi
second large language Kurdish
other languages Pashto, Baluchi, Ossetian, Tadzhik
extinct languages Avestan, Scythian

15. Indic has the most languages that are
Branch derived from Sanskrit
Pali Kashmiri
languages Ardhamagadhi Sindhi
Indi Gujarati
Urdu Konkani
Nepali Sinhalese
Bengali Maldivian
Bhili
Oriya
Marathi
Assamese
Punjabi and Lahnda
Maithili and Maghadi

16. Tokharian
two extinct languages identified
Branch
Turfanian Kuchean
those languages were once spoken in
north west China