Are Semitic and Indo-European languages at all related?
2017年1月12日 · As for Proto-Indo-European influence on Semitic, there don't seem to be any Proto-Indo-European words which are attested in all branches of Semitic. Individual words …
Why do some Indo-European languages have genders and some …
2020年11月30日 · The history of the Indo-European languages is broadly one of loss of inflectional complexity, though the details vary from language to language. As a result, if an IE …
historical linguistics - Which Indo European language best …
2017年7月20日 · As several others have said, older languages like Hittite, Sanskrit, Avestan, Greek, and Latin definitely have more in common with Proto-Indo-European (PIE) as they are …
Is English the only Indo-European language without gendered …
2017年10月13日 · The difference between modern English and the gender system in most Indo-European languages (including Old English) is that English has replaced “conventional” …
historical linguistics - Is Sanskrit really the mother of all languages ...
2019年9月4日 · Rather, Sanskrit and those other languages all share a common ancestor, called "Proto-Indo-European" (or "Proto-Indogermanic"), which was spoken somewhere between …
Is there any agglutinative Indo-European language?
Generally, all Indo-European Anatolian languages had some kind of agglutinative qualities, apparently because of the substratum languages that were agglutinative e.g. Hattic and …
What is the origin of non-natural grammatical genders in Indo …
Another route, which might be more likely for Indo-European languages, is sound shifts. The markings for two genders become similar for all/some words and the two genders merge. Or, …
historical linguistics - Why did early Indo-European languages …
Even so, old indo-european languages do seem to have rather complex rules, incorporating many seemingly different lexical forms, about noun inflection and verb conjugation, making them …
Evolution of Definite Articles in Indo-European Languages
2015年5月11日 · Almost all Indo-european languages spoken in Europe have both definite and indefinite articles - for instance, all Germanic languages and Romance languages have them …
Can Modern Hebrew be considered an Indo-European language?
Zuckermann argues that Israeli Hebrew, which he calls "Israeli", is genetically both Indo-European (Germanic, Slavic and Romance) and Afro-Asiatic (Semitic). He suggests that Israeli Hebrew …