Indo-European
adjective
languagespecializeduk/ˌɪn.dəʊˌjʊə.rəˈpiː.ən/us/ˌɪn.doʊˌjʊr.əˈpiː.ən/relatedto thegroupofEuropeanandAsianlanguagesthat arespokenin most ofEuropeand inpartsofAsiaand thatincludeEnglish,French,Greek,Russian, andHindi:
印欧（语系）的Farsi is one of the Indo-Europeanlanguages.
Irishis aCelticlanguageof Indo-Europeanorigin.
Language names
- Albanian
- American English
- Amharic
- Angrezi
- Aramaic
- Ebonics
- Filipino
- Finno-Ugric
- Flemish
- Georgian
- Greenlandic
- Gujarati
- Manx
- Mongolian
- Montenegrin
- Nauruan
- Nepalese
- Nepali
- Romany
- Semitic
Indo-European
noun
uk/ˌɪn.dəʊˌjʊə.rəˈpiː.ən/us/ˌɪn.doʊˌjʊr.əˈpiː.ən/Indo-Europeannoun(LANGUAGE)
[U]languagespecialized(alsoProto-Indo-European)
anancientlanguagethat all Indo-Europeanlanguagesarethoughtto havedevelopedfrom:
Heproposedacommonsourcefor Sanskrit,Latin, andGreek,latercalled Indo-European.
- The philologist William Jonesidentifiedtheconnectionsbetween Sanskrit andLatinandGreek, and firstproposedthat they allderivedfrom asinglelanguage, Indo-European.
- therelationshipbetweencertainconsonantsinGermaniclanguagesandtheiroriginalsin Indo-European
- Bothlanguagegroupsstemfrom the samerootin Indo-European.
Language names
- Albanian
- American English
- Amharic
- Angrezi
- Aramaic
- Ebonics
- Filipino
- Finno-Ugric
- Flemish
- Georgian
- Greenlandic
- Gujarati
- Manx
- Mongolian
- Montenegrin
- Nauruan
- Nepalese
- Nepali
- Romany
- Semitic
Indo-Europeannoun(PERSON)
[C]
someonebelongingto thegroupofpeoplewhospeakIndo-Europeanlanguages, or to agroupofancientpeoplewhospokealanguagethat theselanguagesdevelopedfrom:
Modern Indo-Europeansinclude, amongothers, the Germans,Scots,Serbs, Albanians, andNorthIndians.
- Archaeologists haveunearthedaskeletonwhich hasyieldedgeneticevidenceof Indo-EuropeansreachingeasternAsiaat least 2,000yearsago.
- Thesimplesthypothesisis that onegroupof Indo-Europeansheadedwest, and those are theoneswe nowcallthe Celts.
- theeastwardexpansionof early Indo-Europeans
Names of groups of people who lived in the past
- Anglo-Saxon
- Aryan
- Aztec
- Bactrian
- Celt
- Celtic
- Hebraic
- Hebrew
- Hellenistic
- hun
- Israelite
- native
- neanderthal
- Norman
- Norseman
- Pict
- pie
- roman
- Romano-
- Saxon