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Indo-European Lexicon: Language Indices ..

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  1. sniper1946

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    Indo-European Lexicon: Language Indices
    Below we list Indo-European languages by family, from west to east. Families are divided into groups, by age and/or geographic area (again, generally from west to east). Each language is listed via a standard abbreviation followed by its full-form name; "a.k.a." comments may indicate synonymous language/dialect names.
    If we have prepared an alphabetic index to a particular language's reflexes -- words & affixes therein, derived from ancient Proto-Indo-European etyma -- a link is provided to a page (available in 3 character-set versions) listing those reflexes. This work is in progress: reflex indices are being added on a language-by-language basis, as time goes on, for languages with 10 or more reflexes.
    Because our IE Lexicon currently emphasizes Germanic languages, especially English, we have split the Germanic family into four convenient but partly imaginary sub-families:
    1. English (technically part of Anglo-Frisian Low German);
    2. West Germanic (minus all English dialects, per above);
    3. North Germanic (the Norse/Scandinavian languages); and
    4. East Germanic (of which only Gothic is well-attested).
     
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    Good link, Ray. Glad to see they've got Brythonic and Goidelic higher than English!:D
     
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    in the same way trilobites are higher than mammals ;)
     

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