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It turns out that most of the major language families are related into one superfamily, referred to as Indo-European. They are associated with various groups of migrants that appeared during the BronzeAge, around 2000-1600 BC. Huge amounts of information about PIE lexicon and grammar have been inferred. Discussion about actual proto-IE culture has been stalled, though, by its association with the racist doctrines of NaziGermany?.

The various subgroups of Indo-European include:

CelticLanguages?

GermanicLanguages

ItalicLanguages?, including Latin and its descendants, the RomanceLanguages

IllyrianLanguages? (now restricted to AlbanianLanguage?)

GreekLanguage?

SlavicLanguages

AnatolianLanguages? (extinct)

IndoIranianLanguages, e.g. SanskritLanguage?


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