Sentences with phrase «european language family»
The steppes to the north of the Black Sea have been suggested as the original homeland (Urheimat) of the speakers of the Proto - Indo - European language, (PIE) the progenitor of the Indo - European language family, by some scholars such as Marija Gimbutas; others move the heartland further east towards the Caspian Sea, yet others to Anatolia.
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Most speak closely related languages that are members of the great Indo - European language family.
A clear spatial picture «Finally we have a clear spatial picture,» says Colin Renfrew at the University of Cambridge, UK, who originally proposed Anatolia as the source of the Indo - European language family.
Not exact matches
If Hale was right, then Pama - Nyungan, with more than 200 identified languages, would be one of the world's largest language families — larger than Indo - European and almost as large as Sino - Tibetan.
South Asia, reaching from Afghanistan in the west and Bangladesh in the east, is home to at least six hundred languages belonging to six large language families, including Dravidian, Indo - European, and Sino - Tibetan.
A team led by University of California, Berkeley, linguists Andrew Garrett and Will Chang employed the language database and evolutionary methods previously used by Gray to create a family tree of the Indo - European languages from their first origins in PIE.
The surprising result supports a theory that nomads from the Urals were one of two major farmer groups that spread into Europe, bringing the Indo - European languages that eventually diverged into the world's largest family of modern languages.
Their system, Culturally Influenced Interlanguage (CI2), exploits the similarity in words and grammar found in language families like the Romance family of French, Spanish and other southern European tongues.
Yorkshire and Bournemouth About Blog IP International Projects is a European language learning centre offering a large choice of language programmes for kids, junior and families.
It wasn't until we sat in the airport the next day, chatting with a European family of three — the young son fluent in seven languages, the parents so chic and relaxed, they made me fantasize about having children — that I realized I wanted to sleep with the guy who expected me to sleep with him.
In addition, European barge trips offer families a unique opportunity to experience different foods, languages and cultures.
Yorkshire and Bournemouth About Blog IP International Projects is a European language learning centre offering a large choice of language programmes for kids, junior and families.
Yorkshire and Bournemouth About Blog IP International Projects is a European language learning centre offering a large choice of language programmes for kids, junior and families.