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ENGLISH AS AN INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGE

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Page 1: LANGUAGE FAMILY Groups of languages are related to each other Common ancestry Indo- European Languages Indo- European Languages Vocabulary, phonology,

ENGLISH AS AN INDO-EUROPEAN

LANGUAGE

Page 2: LANGUAGE FAMILY Groups of languages are related to each other Common ancestry Indo- European Languages Indo- European Languages Vocabulary, phonology,

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

Page 3: LANGUAGE FAMILY Groups of languages are related to each other Common ancestry Indo- European Languages Indo- European Languages Vocabulary, phonology,

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

Page 4: LANGUAGE FAMILY Groups of languages are related to each other Common ancestry Indo- European Languages Indo- European Languages Vocabulary, phonology,
Page 5: LANGUAGE FAMILY Groups of languages are related to each other Common ancestry Indo- European Languages Indo- European Languages Vocabulary, phonology,

INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGE FAMILY

Anotolian

Extintc

Indo-Irania

n

Indic

Iranian

GreekHellen

ic

Attic

Italic

Osco-UmbrianFaliscan

GermanicCelticTocharian

Baltic

Balto-Slavic Slavic

Armenian Albanian

Page 6: LANGUAGE FAMILY Groups of languages are related to each other Common ancestry Indo- European Languages Indo- European Languages Vocabulary, phonology,

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