LING 100 Lecture 11: The History of Indo-European Languages
13 Dec 2015
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The languages of europe and india are all related. The only non indo-european languages in europe are hungarian, Finnish, estonian, karelian (finno-ugric family), basque in spain . Sir william jones and his contribution to the understanding of the relationships among indo-european languages (1786). August schleicher pioneered the idea that languages could be arranged in evolutionary/ genealogical trees of proto- Rasmus rask (1814), franz bopp (1816), jacob grimm (1822) assessed the degree of relatedness using the comparative method, they look for the same" words across several languages, seeking systematic patterns of change. Borrowed words form other languages and onomatopoeic words were excluded from the analysis. Only 140 of the modern world"s 6880 tongues belong to this family, but their importance is far out of proportion to their numbers. 2 one uno odin ( odin ) two dos dva ( dva ) three tres trie ( tri ) The commonalities among languages belonging to the same family are not coincidental.
