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
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The various subgroups of Indo-European include:
CelticLanguages?
GermanicLanguages
ItalicLanguages? - including LatinLanguage? and its descendants, the RomanceLanguages
IllyrianLanguages?
GreekLanguage?
SlavicLanguages
AnatolianLanguages?
IndoIranianLanguages, e.g. SanskritLanguage?
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