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

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