contentbotB to Cool [email protected]English • 11 months agoA cool guide for old world language family treei.redd.itimagemessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1185
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minus-squareReshyuremlinkfedilinkEnglish5•11 months agoThen where’s Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. Thought I’d see it around Sinhalese but they’re missing. No south india representation :(
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•11 months agoThey’re not missing, they just belong to an entirely different family. These are Dravidian languages, not Indo-European.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•11 months agoShould be with the celtic languages I believe.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•11 months agoBasque is a language isolate and is thought to be unrelated to the Indo-European languages in this graphic.
Then where’s Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. Thought I’d see it around Sinhalese but they’re missing. No south india representation :(
They’re not missing, they just belong to an entirely different family. These are Dravidian languages, not Indo-European.
Fascinating, and what about Basque?
Should be with the celtic languages I believe.
Basque is a language isolate and is thought to be unrelated to the Indo-European languages in this graphic.