... family of languages. This broad family includes most of the European languages spoken today. The Indo-European family includes several major branches: • Latin and the modern Romance languages • The Germanic languages • The Indo-Iranian languages, including Hindi and Sanskrit • The Slavic languages ... in an alphabet called Runic, derived from the Scandinavian languages. The Latin alphabet was brought over from Ireland by Christian missionaries. This has remained the writing system of English. At this time, the vocabulary of Old English consisted of an Anglo Saxon base with borr...

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... Celtic and Germanic languages. The Celtic language was the first known, b/c it was written down by the Romans, and the Germanic had very little influence, only some prepositions. In 55 B.C. Latin was first introduced to the English language, when the Romans, led by Julius Caesar, invaded and conquered the Celts. Since the Celts had become slaves to the Romans they refuse ... an excuse to not to work. The only influence they had been to the name of some cites that end in "castra" or "chester." This is because "castra" is the Latin word for fort. Then in 410 the Roman Empire fell to the G...

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... by a collection of semi-nomadic clans and rural tribes which more or less were hunters and gatherers around 6000 - 4000 B.C.E. Scholars have determined the location based on an extensive reconstructed vocabulary of Proto Indo-European language, and the habitat it describes. Therefore Proto- Indo European is an artificial reconstructed language (PIE), which was constructed out of fossil words. The break up ... eastern group. These divisions of P.I.E are referred to as Centum and Satem. The sound-shift that happened was the velar sound K in Centum shifted to sibilant S in Satem. Centum is...

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