This follows on from the previous articles. An article about the Indo-European language family and then one of the Latin sub-group of the Indo-European language family. Related Articles : 1. Indo European language family2. The Slavic language family3. The Germanic language family As we can see in the diagram above. The Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language fragmented […]
The Indo-European language family.
Various languages around the world are related to each other and speakers can feel the similarity for example Spanish and Italian. One doesn’t need to be an academic to sense or realise these languages are ‘related’ as their similarity and varying degrees of mutual intelligibility cause people to arrive at that conclusion consciously or subconsciously. […]
The origin of the English language part 1.
To understand the origin of the English language we naturally need to understand the history of those who spoke the earliest forms of “English” or at least proto-English or the ancestral forms of the English language. In fact it is a matter of interesting debate whether the ‘English’ of Beowulf can really be considered the […]