Talk:List of Indo-European languages

message: i don't see the romance languages in this list -  french, italian, romanian and so on. how so? Geb80 07:16, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: they're right there, listed as "romance", under "italic". --SameerKhan 18:46, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: ah yes, hidden in full view, thanks! Geb80 21:22, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  romance languages 

message: Old Church Slavonic is not subgroup of Slovene. But I don't know its position in classification. --Čikić Dragan (talk) 04:00, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Old Church Slavonic says it's also known as Old Bulgarian or Old Macedonian.  Should it be put under Bulgarian?  (Should Macedonian be put under Bulgarian?)  I moved it 'up' one level, and above its younger siblings. —Tamfang (talk) 04:19, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old Church Slavonic 

message: Where were these 4 sourced from? The only site I could find that discussed them was a ripoff Wikipedia that was very sketchy  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tealyt (talk • contribs) 05:27, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Indo-Atlantic, Indo-Pacific, Pacific, Boreal-Papuan 

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message: Make more subsections because there are alot of parts where the text is one letter wide. AmazinglyLifelike (talk) 12:04, 29 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unreadable on mobile 

message: === High and Low German ===
*** ...
****Elbe Germanic (Herminionic / Irminonic / Suebic / Alamanic)
*****Langobardic / Lombardic (extinct)
*****Suebian / Allemanian (extinct)
*****German
******Brazilian German
******High German languages (characterized by the High German consonant shift) (dialect continuum)
*******Old High German
********Middle High German
*********Early New High German
**********New High German
****North Sea Germanic (Ingvaeonic) (it was the language of the mainland Saxons, which stayed in what is today Northern Germany, and of the Angles, Jutes, Frisians, among others)
*****Old Low German (Old Saxon) (did not participate in the High German consonant shift)
******Middle Low German (Middle Saxon)
*******Low German (Modern Low German) / Low Saxon) (dialect continuum)
# German and Brazilian German contain High and Low German varieties.
# First it's High German, Old High German, Middle High German, New High German, then it's Old Low German, Middle Low German, Low German (Modern Low German). That doesn't look good.
--Naramaru (talk) 09:05, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Classifications 

message: *** ...
****Elbe Germanic (Herminionic / Irminonic / Suebic / Alamanic)
*****Langobardic / Lombardic (extinct)
*****Suebian / Allemanian (extinct)
*****German
******Brazilian German
******High German languages (characterized by the High German consonant shift) (dialect continuum)
*******Old High German
********Middle High German
*********Early New High German
**********New High German
****North Sea Germanic (Ingvaeonic) (it was the language of the mainland Saxons, which stayed in what is today Northern Germany, and of the Angles, Jutes, Frisians, among others)
*****Old Low German (Old Saxon) (did not participate in the High German consonant shift)
******Middle Low German (Middle Saxon)
*******Low German (Modern Low German) / Low Saxon) (dialect continuum)
# German and Brazilian German contain High and Low German varieties.
# First it's High German, Old High German, Middle High German, New High German, then it's Old Low German, Middle Low German, Low German (Modern Low German). That doesn't look good.
--Naramaru (talk) 09:05, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  High and Low German 

message: ****** ...
*******Moselle Franconian
********East Moselle Franconian
*********Hunsrückisch (Moselle Hunsrückisch)
**********Hunsrückisch dialect diaspora
***********Riograndenser Hunsrückisch (in Rio Grande do Sul state, southern Brazil, South America)
Hunsrückisch dialect explains that Hunsrückisch is partly Rhine-Franconian and partly Moselle-Franconian.
--Naramaru (talk) 09:05, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hunsrückisch 

message: Danish and English is wildly used in Greenland, but it is not on the map. Felixsj (talk) 21:10, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  The map is wrong 

message: Classifiation from the article:
***West Germanic (dialect continuum)
****Elbe Germanic (Herminionic / Irminonic)
*****Langobardic / Lombardic (extinct)
******High German languages (characterized by the High German consonant shift) (dialect continuum)
*******Old High German
******** ...
*********Central German / Middle German (Mitteldeutsch)
*********Standard German (Standarddeutsch, Standardhochdeutsch, Hochdeutsch) (based on the East Central German varieties and East Franconian ones)
*********Upper German (Oberdeutsch) (from north towards south)
****Weser-Rhine Germanic (Istvaeonic) (mainly it was the language of the Franks)
*****West Central German (Central / Middle Franconian) (descends from Weser-Rhine Germanic and participate in the High German consonant shift) (dialect continuum)
That's bad in so many ways:
* West Central German is a sub-form of Central German (and hence also of High German).
* Such a list (with both descendancy and language-families, sub-dialects) doesn't work here (cp. Friedrich Maurer (linguist)#Work): Elbe Germanic lead to Upper German; Weser-Rhine Germanic to West Central German and Low Franconian; High German is both Upper and Central German, so descending from both Germanic branches.
--09:06, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  High German