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Various constructed, hypothetic language components, theoretically formed from etymological clues of modern languages.
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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
Indo-European (disambiguation) — Indo European may refer to: * Indo European languages * Indo European people, peoples speaking an Indo European language ** Aryan, a 19th century term for Indo European speakers * Proto Indo European language, the reconstructed common ancestor of … Wikipedia
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 ablaut — In linguistics, the term ablaut designates a system of vowel gradation (i.e. regular vowel variations) in Proto Indo European (PIE) and its far reaching consequences in all of the modern Indo European languages. (For the general phenomenon, see… … Wikipedia
Indo-European s-mobile — In Indo European studies, the term s mobile ( mobile pronounced ; the word is a Latin neuter adjective) designates the phenomenon where a PIE root begins with an PIE|*s which is sometimes but not always present. It is therefore represented in the … Wikipedia
Indo-European copula — A feature common to all Indo European languages is the presence of a verb corresponding to the English verb to be . General featuresThis verb has two basic meanings. In a less marked context it is a simple copula ( I m tired ; That s a shame! ),… … Wikipedia
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
Proto-Indo-European root — The roots of the reconstructed Proto Indo European language (PIE) are basic morphemes carrying a lexical meaning. By addition of suffixes, they form stems, and by addition of desinences, these form grammatically inflected words (nouns or… … Wikipedia
Proto-Indo-European numerals — The Proto Indo European numerals are generally reconstructed as follows:ee also*List of Proto Indo European roots *Proto Indo European pronouns and particles … 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
