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Just let them have their fun (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Civilisations on the European continent before Europe became a concept.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

But is it a language? I only know of Proto Germanic and Proto Indo-European that would be relevant here but I’m not a linguist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

proto European languages (like old English)

No, it's a category, and the two languages you mentioned would, I assume, fit into that category.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

That makes sense somewhat, although it would be a rather broad category.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

PIE was the language (or languages) the proto-indo-European peoples spoke during their processes of migration into Europe, the Middle East and South Asia (around 6-4k years ago).

So most of the languages from those regions, from Hindi, to Persian, to Greek and English are all PIE, as these are all descendants from the PIE peoples.

We can reconstruct it by analysing these modern languages, their recent ancestors etc. and compare them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I know. However I was wondering what proto European was supposed to be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Those would be the PIE that entered Europe, so after they split from the PIE that entered Iran and India (the Indo-Iranians).