[DOC] [TLE] Indo-European languages - Wikipedia [PAR] The Indo-European languages are a family of several hundred related languages 
and dialects. ... A synonym is Indo-Germanic (Idg. or IdG.) ... Italic, (from Proto-
Italic) including Latin and its descendants (the Romance .... The proposed Proto-
Indo-European language (PIE) is the hypothetical common ancestor of the... [DOC] [TLE] Proto-Indo-European language - Wikipedia [PAR] Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the linguistic reconstruction of the common 
ancestor of the ... Grimm showed correlations between the Germanic and other 
Indo-European ..... many of the descendant languages have this order: modern 
Greek, Romance and .... Privacy policy  About Wikipedia  Disclaimers  Contact 
Wikipedia... [DOC] [TLE] Indo-European Languages - Ancient History Encyclopedia [PAR] May 5, 2014 ... The earliest possible end of Proto-Indo-European linguistic unity is ... Today 
Romance languages are the only surviving descendants of the ... North Germanic
, containing Old Norse, the ancestor of all modern ... During prehistoric times, the 
Germanic speaking tribes came into contact with Finnic speakers in... [DOC] [TLE] Introduction & Abbreviations - Online Etymology Dictionary [PAR] As a writer and editor with an amateur's passion for linguistics, I took this as a joy 
ride ... three people can have a dialogue; and if anyone calls you feisty, slug him). 
... Afrikaans, Germanic language of South Africa, an offshoot of Dutch, also ..... 
PIE Proto-Indo-European, the hypothetical reconstructed ancestral language of... [DOC] [TLE] Indo-European Language Family | About World Languages [PAR] Since PIE left no written records, historical linguists construct family trees, an idea 
... PIE *dekm >, Proto-Germanic *texun > Old English teon > Modern English ten 
... that Baltic languages share a common ancestral language with the Slavic 
languages. This hypothetical language is called Balto-Slavic. ... Romance (Italic)
... [DOC] [TLE] 1. Introduction - Indo-European [PAR] Most linguists accept that Proto-Indo-European must be the product of a long 
historical ... into continued linguistic contact (e.g. between Balto-Slavic and Indo-
Iranian): ... also Early PIE, is the hypothetical ancestor of Indo-Hittite, and 
probably the ... known separation of the Romance or Germanic languages), 
linguists tend to... [DOC] [TLE] Linguists Debating Deepest Roots of Language - NYTimes.com [PAR] Jun 27, 1995 ... They call it proto-Indo-European, or PIE for short. ... The hypothetical Nostratic is 
not the ur-language but might be one of its major branches. ... that the evidence 
for the common ancestral language is "massive and persuasive. ... Linguists 
consider it coincidental that the German word for "awl" happens to be... [DOC] [TLE] Historical linguistics [PAR] Historical linguistics aims to classify the world's languages by their genetic ... 
Thus, when the method is applied to the Romance languages (which include ... 
Germanic and Latin (more precisely, Proto-Italic, the ancestor of Latin and a few 
of ... being co-descended from Proto-Indo-European, spoken perhaps 5000 years 
ago. [DOC] [TLE] Mysterious Indo-European homeland may have been in the steppes ... [PAR] Feb 13, 2015 ... (Many linguists think PIE already had a word for wheel. ... So the steppe 
ancestry, as the authors of the preprint call it, ... For example, they assumed that 
Latin was directly ancestral to Romance languages such as Spanish, French, ... 
question of the Proto-Indo-European homeland is unresolved by our... [DOC] [TLE] The Indo-European Language - Ran Levi - Curious Minds Podcast [PAR] A surprising discovery uncovered the Indo-European Language - an ancient ... A 
surprising discovery in the field of linguistics, made by a William Jones, .... 
English and German, for instance  and the Romance languages. ... The name 
given to the hypothetical language that Jones exposed was Proto-Indo-
European,... [DOC] [TLE] indo european - Why do English, Italian, German ... - Linguistics [PAR] Sep 3

Question: Linguists call the hypothetical ancestor of the Germanic & Romance languages P.I.E., Proto-this
Answer: Indo-European