Proper noun

Singular Indo-European

Plural -

Indo-European

  1. A major language family which includes many of the languages between Europe and India, with notable Indic, Iranian and European sub-branches.
  2. Proto-Indo-European: the hypothetical parent language of the Indo-European language family.

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Noun

Singular Indo- European

Plural Indo-Europeans

Indo- European (plural Indo-Europeans)

  1. A member of the original ethnolinguistic group hypothesized to have spoken Proto-Indo-European and thus to have been the ancestor for most of Western Eurasia.

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Wed May 13 10:52:42 2009

The Indo-European languages are a family (or phylum) of several hundred related languages and dialects, including most major languages of Europe, Iran, and India, and historically also predominant in Anatolia and Central Asia. Attested since the Bronze Age, in the form of Mycenaean Greek and Anatolian languages, the Indo-European family is significant to the field of historical linguistics as possessing the longest recorded history after the Afroasiatic family.

The languages of the Indo-European group are spoken by approximately three billion native speakers, the largest number of the recognised families of languages. (Several disputed proposals merge Indo-European with other major language families.)

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Fri Nov 6 23:13:30 2009

How were the Indo-European migrants different from the cultures that already existed in India?
Q. an answer ASAP would be appreciated!
Asked by tet - Mon Aug 4 17:28:38 2008 - - 2 Answers - 2 Comments

A. I think that you are referring to the Aryans, who were Indo-European invaders who conquered India about 1,500 B.C. They were nomads who entered India from the northwest. They came from Central Asia, most likely from what is now Iran or Afghanistan. They were either white or at least fair skinned. They were war-like and overran the Dravidian civilization that existed in India. They brought with them their own culture and language (Sanskrit). Modern Hindi is derived from it. They established the Caste system in India with themselves as Brahmins, the highest caste. The Dravidians made up the lower castes. They must have settled mostly in northern India as the people are lighter in complexion than the people of southern India. Even today. And… [cont.]
Answered by harveymac1336 - Fri Aug 8 14:40:58 2008

What are the three most common theories for the origin of Indo European people?
Q. this is for a college paper. thanks =]
Asked by ajhottie162 - Fri Apr 17 01:38:02 2009 - - 8 Answers - 0 Comments

A. 1) Africa 2) The Garden of Eden 3) The Indus valley
Answered by Holistic Mystic - Sat Apr 18 13:39:13 2009

Why are Finns, Estonians, Hungarians ect classified as non-indo-European?
Q. Aren't the Finns Nordic Scandinavians? Thus Germanic? Thus Indo-European? I'm not understanding this. are they classified as Ethnic Europeans? if not why are the Swedes, Danes, Norwegians classified as Europeans and not Finns? aren't they the same ethnic Nordic race? wtf are you talking about? and how is America even involved in my question? it's not, so don't answer if you don't know what you're talking about.
Asked by Sean - Sun Nov 1 02:48:18 2009 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Finns, Estonians and Hungarians belong to a different linguistic family than most European nationalities. Rather than speaking "Indo-European" (or "Aryan") languages they speak languages called "Finno-Ugrian" instead. The Basques in northern Spain / southwestern France are the only other group of Europeans whose language does not belong to the Indo-European family. There is a close linguistic relationship between Finnish, Estonian and Livonian (spoken in western Latvia) but their relationship to Lappic (or Saami) spoken in Norway and Hungarian is more distant. Many other Finno-Ugrian languages are spoken by only small groups of people in Northern Russia and the Ukraine. At one time, Finno-Ugrian speaking hunter-gatherer tribes… [cont.]
Answered by Brennus - Sun Nov 1 03:01:14 2009

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