Definition of Indo-European language

1. Noun. The family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Indo-European Language

Indigirka River
Indigo child
Indigo children
Indigofera anil
Indigofera suffruticosa
Indigofera tinctoria
Indira Gandhi
Indira Nehru Gandhi
Indo-
Indo-Aryan
Indo-Aryans
Indo-Briton
Indo-Britons
Indo-China
Indo-European
Indo-European language (current term)
Indo-European root
Indo-European roots
Indo-Europeanist
Indo-Europeanists
Indo-Europeans
Indo-Germanic
Indo-Hittite
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian language
Indo-Pak
Indo-Portuguese
Indo-Semitic
Indo-Uralic
Indoaryan

Literary usage of Indo-European language

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Language and the Study of Language: Twelve Lectures on the Principles of by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Semitic family : its constitution, historic value, literature», aud linguistic character: Relation of Semitic to Indo- European language. ..."

2. A Compendium of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-European, Sanskrit by August Schleicher, Herbert Bendall (1874)
"... ventured to abide by the majority of Indo-European spelling-systems, and to leave this sound uncharacterized. § 2. VOWELS OF THE Indo-European language. ..."

3. Language and Its Study, with Especial Reference to the Indo-European Family by William Dwight Whitney (1876)
"Beginnings of Indo-European language. Actuality of linguistic analysis. Boots, pronominal and verbal; their character as the historical germs of our ..."

4. Language and Its Study, with Especial Reference to the Indo-European Family by William Dwight Whitney, Richard Morris (1880)
"Beginnings of Indo-European language. Actuality of linguistic analysis. Roots, pronominal and verbal; their character as the historical germs of our ..."

5. Introduction to the Study of Language: A Critical Survey of the History and by Berthold Delbrück (1882)
"... Indo-European language, Indo-European language-development etc., must alone be understood. I have felt the less inclination to discuss questions which ..."

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