Introduction to Comparative Indo-European Linguistics

Learn about Indo-European languages, their evolution over time, and the best way to rebuild ancient languages. Each language is part of the language family, an assortment of languages that are genetically connected to one another. Indo-European is the title given to the family of languages to which English is part of, as well as numerous sub-families like Germanic languages as well as Romance languages. The Indo-European family of languages is currently comprised of 13 major branches as well as several gone languages, of which only fragments are preserved, which may had separate branches within their. Learn about the structure and history the branches. You'll not only discover the oldest languages that belong to the Indo-European family of languages, but you'll also be taught about the process of linguistic reconstruction and the methods to determine if two languages are related to one the other, and how languages change. This course will help you navigate the various Indo-European groups. language families. We'll examine the oldest texts in these languages, such as Ancient Greek and Sanskrit, and discover the significance to oral tradition in the development of the texts. As you move through each branch of the tree of languages and begin to unravel the Proto-Indo-European language piece by piece by studying and contrasting every languages in the tree.