The Origin of the Indoeuropeans

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THE ORIGIN OF THE INDO-EUROPEANS

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Family:Indo-EuropeanBantu (Zulu,…) Malayopolinesica (Malay, Hawaiian, ...)Hyperborea (Arctic languages)Hamitic (Egyptian, Ethiopian, ...)Semitic (Assyrian, Hebrew, Phoenician, Aramaic,

Arabic, ...Ural - Altaic (Finnish, Estonian, Turkish, ....)Dravidian (Tamil and languages of southeast India)Afro-AsianAmerican (Native American languages)CaucasianAustralian

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Theory:

- Kurgan. The Pennsylvania family tree, 2002. Ringe-Warnow-Taylor tree

- Anatolian farming. The New Zealand family tree, 2003. Gray-Atkinson tree

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Kurga theory

Pre-Proto-Indoeuropean 6000 – 3500 B.C.Proto-Indoeuropean 3500 – 2500 B.C.

Comparative method. Phonetic, phonological and morphological Laws.Grimm's and Verner’s Laws.

Satem and Centum languages

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18th C Sir William Jones

19th C Franz Bopp

Ramus Rask

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One community. Own language and culture

Southern Russia and the Ukraine

Diaspora

Europe Asia

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Indo-european

pater mater sunu dhugheter bhrater swesor widhewa

english father mother son daughter brother sister widow

german vater mutter sohn tochter bruder schwester wittwe

russian mat syn brat sestra vdova

latin pater mater frater soror vidua

greek πατήρ μήτηρ ύυγατήρ ϕράτηρ

sanskrit pitar matar sunu duhitar bhratar svasar widuwe

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Proto-Indoeuropean 3500 – 2500 B. C.

Indo-European 2500 B. C.

Indo-Europeans 1500 B. C.

Indo-Europeans 500 B. C.

Indo-Europeans 500 A.D. Roman Empire and Germanic migrations

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Anatolian farming theory

1987 Colin Renfrew. The expansion of agriculture from Anatolia between 8000 and 9500 years ago

2003 Russell D. Gray & Quentin D. Atkinson

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Hittite (Anatolia)

8700 a.C.

7900 a.C.Hittite

Proto- Indoeuropean

Tocharian Greco-armenian

Anatolian farming theory

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Anatolian farming theory

Comparative Analysis

87 languages – 2449 lexical terms

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Anatolian

Tocharian

Italo-celtic

Greco-armenic

Albanian

Balto-slavo

Indo-iranian

Germanic

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Basque

Hungarian

Finnish

Estonian

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Schleicher's fable. 1868

The sheep and the horses