Is Mandarin Indo-European?
Old Chinese borrowed hundreds of words from Tocharian, and all of the languages that Old Chinese evolved into (Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, Hakka) inherited those words. So, in other words, Chinese languages did have Indo-European influence.
Where are Indo Europeans originally from?
The Proto-Indo-Europeans likely lived during the late Neolithic, or roughly the 4th millennium BC. Mainstream scholarship places them in the Pontic–Caspian steppe zone in Eastern Europe (present day Ukraine and southern Russia).
Which was an Indo-European group?
The Indo-European Family
| Group | Languages |
|---|---|
| Germanic | English, Friesian, German, Dutch, Afrikaans |
| Baltic | Old Prussian†, Lithuanian, Latvian |
| Slavic | Polish, Czech, Slovak, Sorbian |
| Serbo-Croatian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian |
What languages arent Indo-European?
You may have noticed that a few languages spoken on the European continent are not included in the Indo-European family of languages. Finnish, Hungarian and Estonian belong to the Uralic (also called Finno-Ugric) family, and Basque (spoken in the Pyrenees region) has no genetic relation to any other language.
Is Slavic Indo-European?
Slavic languages, also called Slavonic languages, group of Indo-European languages spoken in most of eastern Europe, much of the Balkans, parts of central Europe, and the northern part of Asia.
Are Japanese Indo-European?
A lot of the sources I have found seem to suggest Japanese is a very distant cousin of the Indo-European languages (but probbably slightly closer to Native American languages).
When did the Indo-Europeans migrate?
Whatever the reason, Indo-European nomads began to migrate outward in all directions between 1700 and 1200 B. C. These migrations, movements of a people from one region to another, happened in waves over a long period of time. in modern-day Turkey that juts out into the Black and Mediterranean seas.
Why is Finnish not Indo-European?
Finnish is part of the Finnic language branch of the Uralic language family. Long ago, before Indo-European speaking tribes arrived in Europe, near the Ural Mountains and the bend in the middle of the Volga River, people spoke a language called proto-Uralic. The Finnish language is descended from this ancient tongue.
Who came before Indo Europeans?
Proto Indo-Uralic, a branch of Proto-Eurasiatic, was what Proto Indo-European came from, and it was spoken on the northern shore of the Caspian Sea around 9000 BC. These people had migrated from northern Kazakhstan, and were closely related to the ancestors of the Chukchis and the Eskimo-Aleuts.