Develpment in progress; there are still many more languages to add, as
well as information about those languages and study links for them - please
check back often! Last updated 18 April, 2004. Thanks.
The following is information I have gleaned from many sources over the last twenty
six years. "Parent" languages are to the left; "descendant" languages are indented to the
right under the appropriate "parent" language. Other languages which were influential to the
develpment of a language will be noted parenthetically.Please be aware that some of the
oldest language names denote the geographic region where that language was spoken rather
that what the speakers of the language called their language.
This is a simplified diagram of the relationship of various modern and obsolete languages
showing their development throughout history from various older languages, mostly now extinct.
This does not include languages in the families known as Finno-Ugric, Sino-Tibetan, Afro-Asiatic,
African, Ural-Altaic (Asiatic), American Indiginous, Andamanese, Caucasian, or Oceanic. (As I
add pages for those language families I will place links to them above.)
INDO-EUROPEAN (Probably originated around the Caucasus Mountain area between Europe and India)
"Indo-European" languages are divided into two groups; the CENTUM languages and the SATEM languages.
"Centum" Indo-European (spoken mostly on the Eestern two-thirds of the Eropean/Asian Continent)
West Tocharish
Hellenic
Aolic
Doric
Laconian
Cretan
others
Attic-Ionic
Greek (Koine)
Greek (Achaeon)
others
Hittite
Italic
Oscan
Umbrian
Latin
Vulgar Latin
Gallo-Romance
Picard
Norman
Occitan
Old French
French
Provençal
Rheto-Romanic
Ladino (spoken in Switzerland along with French and German)
Urdu (with influence from Turkish, Arabic and Pakistani)
Romany
Bihari
Balto-Slavic (Proto-Balto-Slavic)
Baltic (Proto-Baltic)
Lettish
Lithuanian
Old Prussian
Slavonic (Proto-Slavic)
East Slavonic
Byelorusian (Belorus)
Ruthenian (Carpatho-Russian)
Ukrainian [Corrections thanks to Tychon[
Russian
West Slavonic
Polish
Kashubian [Corrections thanks to Emil Jerabek]
"Czechoslovakian" (Proto-Czech-Slovak?)
Czech
Slovak
Pomeranian
Sorbian (Wendish)
Upper Wendish [Corrections thanks to Emil Jerabek]
Lower Wendish (Lusatian Sorbian)[Corrections thanks to Emil Jerabek]
South Slavonic
Serbo-Croatian
Slovene (Slovenian)
Bulgarian
Macedonian
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