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English as an Indo-European Language

English as an Indo-European Language. LANGUAGE FAMILY. Indo- European Languages. Groups of languages are related to each other. Common ancestry. Vocabulary, phonology, morphology, and syntax. Proto-Indo- European. English. Germanic. COMMON ANCESTRY. Romance languages.

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English as an Indo-European Language

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  1. English as an Indo-European Language

  2. LANGUAGE FAMILY Indo- European Languages Groups of languages are related to each other Common ancestry Vocabulary, phonology, morphology, and syntax Proto-Indo- European English Germanic

  3. COMMON ANCESTRY Romance languages Germanic languages We do not have a written ancestor Cultural and geographical contact Proto-Germanic Latin French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan primary factors East Germanic North Germanic West Germanic Languages exchange vocabulary Need and prestige Lower number of dialects Gothic Old Icelandic German, Yiddish, Dutch, Flemish, Afrikaans and English

  4. Extintc Germanic Tocharian Celtic Anotolian INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGE FAMILY Indic Baltic Indo-Iranian Iranian Balto-Slavic Slavic Greek Hellenic Italic Albanian Armenian Attic Faliscan Osco-Umbrian

  5. ASPECTS OF THE STRUCTURE PIE Allow researchers to find out similarities in families language Phonology Morphology Verbal Morphology Syntax Grammatically Semantically Word order Nominal Pronominal • 2 voices (active, mediopassive • number of tenses mood

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