The pre-Indo-European languages are any of several ancient languages, not necessarily related to one another, that existed in Prehistoric Europe, Asia...

Pre-Indo-European means "preceding Indo-European languages". Pre-Indo-European may refer to: Pre-Indo-European languages, several (not necessarily related)...

Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family. No direct record of Proto-Indo-European exists;...

Paleo-European languages, or Old European languages, are the mostly unknown languages that were spoken in Europe prior to the spread of the Indo-European and...

purportedly distinctive nature of the Germanic languages within the context of the Indo-European languages. Based on the elements of Common Germanic vocabulary...

The Pre-Greek substrate (or Pre-Greek substratum) consists of the unknown pre-Indo-European language(s) spoken in prehistoric Greece before the advent...

The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent...

The Indo-Iranian languages (also known as Indo-Iranic languages or collectively the Aryan languages) constitute the largest and southeasternmost extant...

roughly half the world's population. The Indo-European languages include some 449 (SIL estimate, 2018 edition) languages spoken by about 3.5 billion people...

prevent its certain linguistic classification as a Pre-Indo-European or an Indo-European language. The linguistic hypotheses are mainly based on toponymy...

in the Indo-Aryan languages suggest that Dravidian languages were spoken more widely across the Indian subcontinent before the spread of the Indo-Aryan...

people speaking derived Indo-European languages, which took place approx. 4000 to 1000 BCE, potentially explaining how these languages came to be spoken across...

and Indo-European languages. More recent proponents of the Kurgan hypothesis agree that the cultures of Old Europe spoke pre-Indo-European languages but...

evidence of such is limited. The Tyrsenian languages are generally considered Pre-Indo-European and Paleo-European. In 1998 the German linguist Helmut Rix...

500 BC. Indo-European languages are usually thought to have been a much later arrival. Some scholars hypothesize that the Goidelic languages may have...

origin who imported their Indo-European language to the island, pushing out the Pre-Indo-European languages spoken by the Pre-Nuragic peoples. Some examples...

Indo-European may also refer to: Proto-Indo-European language, the reconstructed common ancestor of all Indo-European languages Proto-Indo-Europeans (or...

Anatolian languages may have split off a Pre-Proto-Indo-European language considerably earlier than the separation of the remaining Indo-European languages. The...

languages Languages of Spain Languages of Portugal Hispano-Celtic languages Vasconic substrate hypothesis Paleo-European languages Pre-Indo-European languages...

reconstruction. "Pre-X" is sometimes also used for a postulated substratum, as in the Pre-Indo-European languages believed to have been spoken in Europe and South...

The Paleo-Balkan languages are a geographical grouping of various Indo-European languages that were spoken in the Balkans and surrounding areas in ancient...

Albanoid or Albanic is a branch or subfamily of the Indo-European languages, of which Albanian language varieties are the only surviving representatives...

Proto-Indo-Iranian, also called Proto-Indo-Iranic or Proto-Aryan, is the reconstructed proto-language of the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European. Its...

languages and "Pre-Indo-European" languages. Early Indo-European languages are usually assumed to have reached Danubian (and maybe Central) Europe in the Chalcolithic...

Semitic nor to the Indo-European languages, and to date, the most conservative view holds that Hurro-Urartian is a primary language family not demonstrably...

Proto-Germanic Proto-Indo-European language Proto-Indo-Europeans Kurgan hypothesis Indo-European languages List of Indo-European languages "Voiceless high vowels...

The Italic languages form a branch of the Indo-European language family, whose earliest known members were spoken on the Italian Peninsula in the first...

different branches of the Indo-European language family. The most widely accepted proposal about the location of the Proto-Indo-European homeland is the steppe...

The following is a table of many of the most fundamental Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) words and roots, with their cognates in all of the major families...

ancestor of all modern Indo-European languages. Many of the modern ideas in this field involve the unsettled Indo-European homeland debate about the...