Questions tagged [indo-european]

The language family covering the majority of the languages of Europe and the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent.

The language family including among its members the majority of the languages of Europe and the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent.

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proto-indo-european (abbreviated PIE): the reconstructed proto-language for the family
Major branches
- albanian
- anatolian †
- armenian
- balto-slavic
  - slavic-languages
- celtic
- germanic-languages
- indo-iranian
- greek
- italic
  - romance-languages
- tocharian †

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What argument did Paul Kretschmer use for Illyrian being a satem language?

Kretschmer identified both Illyrian and Messapic as satem languages due to the change from IE o to a. Illyrian language - Wikipedia That sounds like complete nonsense to me. How does the argument go? How does he know that PIE 'o' always changed…

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asked Mar 19 '23 at 19:23

FlatAssembler

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Does Linear A potentially have the oldest Indo-European text that we know of?

I was looking at Ancient Greek history and found out about Linear B. It was a deciphered syllabic script that was used around 1000 BC. But, there was a system called Linear A that was used from 1800 to 1250 BC. The Rigveda was written around 1500…

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asked Oct 29 '19 at 11:24

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