Downs Study Guide II Flashcards
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English is a member of what family of languages?
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Indo-European
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Three periods of English
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Old English (Anglo-Saxon)
Middle English
Modern English
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Other Indo-European languages
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Latin and the modern Romance languages
Germanic languages
Indo-Iranian languages (including Hindi and Sanskrit)
Slavic languages
Baltic languages of Latvian and Lithuanian
Celtic languages
Greek