December 4 - Lecture 11.2: Proto-Indo-European Flashcards
1
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Important item
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Europeans were aware that modern Romance languages had developed from Latin
2
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Franz Bopp
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Published a book that began comparative linguistics and PIE studies
PIE: Proto-Indo-European
3
Q
What do we call the people who spoke the ancestral language of Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit?
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Indo-Europeans
4
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Proto-Indo-Europeans
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The earliest people who spoke Indo-European, their language is called Proto-Indo-European
5
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Where did the Proto-Indo-Europeans originate?
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In the Ukraine area 7,000 years ago
