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ENGLISH AS AN INDO-EUROPEAN
LANGUAGE
LANGUAGE FAMILY
Groups of languages are related to each
other
Common ancestry
Indo- European Languages
Vocabulary, phonology,
morphology, and syntax
Proto-Indo- European
English
Germanic
COMMON ANCESTRY
Romance language
s
Germanic languages
French, Italian, Spanish,
Portuguese, Catalan
Latin
Lower number of dialects
We do not have a written
ancestor
Proto-Germanic
Cultural and geographical
contact
Languages exchange vocabulary
Need and prestige
primary factors
East Germanic
Gothic
North Germanic
West Germanic
Old Icelandic
German, Yiddish, Dutch,
Flemish, Afrikaans
and English
INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGE FAMILY
Anotolian
Extintc
Indo-Irania
n
Indic
Iranian
GreekHellen
ic
Attic
Italic
Osco-UmbrianFaliscan
GermanicCelticTocharian
Baltic
Balto-Slavic Slavic
Armenian Albanian
ASPECTS OF THE STRUCTURE PIE
Phonology MorphologyVerbal
MorphologySyntax
Nominal
Pronominal
Allow researchers to find out similarities in families
language
Grammatically Semantically
• 2 voices (active, mediopassive
• number of tenses
mood
Word order