1. The History of the English Language
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, the Baltic languages of Latvian and Lithuanian (but not Estonian, the Celtic languages, and Greek). ... Around the second century BC, the Germanic language split into three distinct sub-groups; East Germanic was spoken by people who migrated back to southeastern Europe (East Germanic is not spoken today and the only written material that has survived is Gothic), North Germanic evolved into the m...
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