Language families

The English language, and indeed most European languages, traces it original roots back to a Neolithic (late Stone Age) people known as the Indo-Europeans or

The Old World Language Families infographic from Stand Still Stay Silent Comic shows the “roots” of our modern languages. Follow each language’s path from bush to roots and discover how closely languages are related to each other. Language trees for the language lovers! I’ve gathered

Did you know that “tea” is either “te” or “cha(i)” in almost all languages in the world? Both names originally come from Chinese 茶, which is pronounced as

The main divisions of the Indo-European Group. Many languages that we today find to be very different are in fact descended from the same original root language, English, along with many of the languages of Europe, parts of Asia, and India are descendants of the same common ancestor language spoken perhaps 7,000 to 9,000 years ago: Proto-Indo-European (PIE).

Family in Spanish culture is a really important concept, and the word for family in Spanish is similar to English, “familia”.

The following map shows the language families of Europe (distinguished by colour) and languages within those families. Note that the terms

You’ve probably heard about language families, and today, we’re talking about the Germanic languages. Imagine, long, long ago, there was a language called Proto-Germanic, spoken around 500 BCE to the 5th century CE. Over time, it split into different branches, like how a family tree has many branches. Now, you might wonder which languages are part of this language family and how they are similar or different today. Let’s find out together!

Comic artist creates amazing infographic, which illustrates the ancient linguistic links between the world’s languages in the form of a magnificent tree.

Here is a list of the most important family members in the Italian language! Find out more about the word 'family' at dailyitalianwords.com. #italian #italiano #italianlanguage #italianlessons

Slavic languages sound different. We use different alphabets and grammatical constructions, we have different accents and vocabulary. But if you once enter the world of Slavic languages, you realize that there are some outstanding similarities and benefits of knowing them. 1.