What are the Indo-European languages?
What are the Indo-European Languages? Indo-European? Proto-Indo-European? What are the Indo-European languages and how are they different from Proto-Indo-European?Answer: Indo-European gets its name from the area stretching from the Indian subcontinent to Europe. Linguists noticed similarities between Indian languages and European ones and posited an original language from which the others developed. This hypothetical original language is Proto-Indo-European or PIE. In diagrams of language family trees PIE is often represented as the base or tree trunk. The Indo-European languages are not hypothetical but real languages, both living and extinct, thought to have emerged from some earlier PIE-like form. The Indo-European languages include languages as diverse as Latin, Greek (the language of the Hellenes), English, Spanish, French, and Russian. Indo-European languages are spoken throughout the world. Here is a look
