Historical Grammar2

2016-01-13

Language families		Language families
• Altaic		• Uralic
• Turkicgroup		• Finno-Ugric: Finish, Hungarian, Lappish,
• Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, China, Georgia, Iran,		languages of Arctic Siberia
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Moldova,		• Samoyedic: languages of northern Siberia
Russian Federation, Turkey, Turkmenistan,		• Caucasian: Georgian, Kabardian, Avar, Chechen
Ukrainę, Uzbekistan		• Paleosiberian/Paleo-Asiatic: 4 groups of
• Mongolie		languages used by natives of eastern Siberia • Eskimo-Aleuto: Eskimo

Language families		Language families
• Dravidan		• North American Indian languages: originally
• India, Nepal, Pakistan: Tamil, Telugu,		about 300 languages in over 50 families;
languages of south eastern India		Eskimo, Navaho, Cree
• Mon-Khmer: Khmer		•    Penutian group: Indian languages of the Southern USA, Mexico, Central America •    South American Indian languages: 2000 languages in morę than 100 families

Indo-European Family		Italie
•    437 languages •    6% • Parent language -> Proto-Indo-European		•    Umbrian, Venetian, and other extinct languages used in antiquity in the northern parts of Italy •    Romance: Latin (both classical and vulgar); Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Rhaetian (in Switzerland), Sardinian, Provencal (Southern France), Catalan (north-east Spain), Dalmatian (coast of Yugoslavia)

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