Title: The Indo-European Language Family
Publication Year: 20250417

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/historical-linguistics/indo-european-language-family?format=PB&isbn=9781108731522#about-the-authors

Editor(s): Thomas Olander

Paperback ISBN: 9781108731522 Pages: 314 Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Paperback ISBN: 9781108731522 Pages: 314 Price: Europe EURO 29.17
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Abstract:

Modern languages like English, Spanish, Russian and Hindi as well as ancient languages like Greek, Latin and Sanskrit all belong to the Indo-European language family, which means that they all descend from a common ancestor. But how, more precisely, are the Indo-European languages related to each other? This book brings together pioneering research from a team of international scholars to address this fundamental question. It provides an introduction to linguistic subgrouping as well as offering comprehensive, systematic and up-to-date analyses of the ten main branches of the Indo-European language family: Anatolian, Tocharian, Italic, Celtic, Germanic, Greek, Armenian, Albanian, Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic. By highlighting that these branches are saliently different from each other, yet at the same time display striking similarities, the book demonstrates the early diversification of the Indo-European language family, spoken today by half the world's population. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Written In: English (eng)