Proto-Indo-European language
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Proto-Indo-European is the reconstructed language of a real people who lived in a real place at a real time in history. It is the ancestral language from which all members of the Indo-European family of languages descend. The first person to recognize the relationships between Indo-European languages (based on comparison of Greek, Latin and Sanskrit) was Sir William Jones in 1786. This article will discuss the characteristics of the reconstructed language.
- For the science that allows us to reconstruct such a language see ---
- For a discussion of Proto-Indo-European ethnicity, see ---
- For a discussion of where these people originated, see ---
Grammar
Noun cases
Proto-Indo-European had eight noun cases (see Grammatical case'').
Sources
- Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, edited by James P. Mallory and Douglas Q. Adams; Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997; "Proto-Indo-European", pp. 458-470.