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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.
Generic synonyms: Natural Language, Tongue
Specialized synonyms: Pie, Proto-indo European, Albanian, Armenian, Armenian Language, Illyrian, Thraco-phrygian, Balto-slavic, Balto-slavic Language, Balto-slavonic, Germanic, Germanic Language, Celtic, Celtic Language, Italic, Italic Language, Tocharian, Indo-iranian, Indo-iranian Language, Anatolian, Anatolian Language, Greek, Hellenic, Hellenic Language
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indo-european Language
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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