Get 51% off a premium subscription to WorldAnvil with code KHANUBIS at You probably already know that most of the languages of Europe, India, and Iran all belong to one massive family, the Indo-European languages, but at first glance some of these languages seem quite different, so how did linguists piece together this family? In fact, how do linguists know whether two languages are truly related or not? MUSIC: “Descending Mount Everest” by Trailer Worx “When Warriors Align” by Zauana “Far Over the Highlands” by Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen “Dusty Wheels” by Kikoru “The Search for Self” by Jon Björk “An Ordinary Day” by Deskant “A King’s Ransom” by Bonnie Grace “As the Bird Sings” by Deskant “Sea Adventures” by Bonnie Grace (All via EpidemicSound) 0:00 - Intro 1:31 - History of the theory 4:22 - How language families are put together 9:15 - (Theorized) history of the Indo-European languages Correction: 7:50 - The Russian word actually comes from the same stem as the English 'mead', and those two words come from a Proto-Indo-European word referring to mead, while the Greek and Spanish words (although similar-sounding) evolved from a different PIE word, referring specifically to honey 📖 SOURCES: #History – Answer by Brian Collins Hayden, Deborah. "Language and Linguistics in Medieval Europe." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. April 26, 2017. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 3 Nov. 2024 “Origins of Linguistics” Harold Schaffman, University of Pennsylvania ~haroldfs/sars238/intro/ [1] Tashjean, John E. “INDO-EUROPEAN STUDIES AND THE SCIENCES OF MAN.” History of Political Thought, vol. 2, no. 3, 1981, pp. 447–67. JSTOR, [2] [3] Lubotsky, Alexander. “Tocharian Loan Words in Old Chinese: Chariots, Chariot Gear, and Town Building.” The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Peoples of Eastern Central Asia, ed. Victor H. Mair, Washington D.C. (Institute for the Study of Man Inc.) (1998): 379–390. 👕 MERCH! CONTACT: contact@ SPONSORSHIP INQUIRIES: khanubis@ 👥 DISCORD SERVER: THANK YOU, BRONZE AGE+ PATRONS! ( ) Bulcsú Farmasi, Nif Lindsay, TC Safavi, Tobi Burch-Rates Or make one-time donations at