Words, the Evolution of Western LanguagesVictor Stevenson Presents the story of the languages of Europe. |
Contents
Foreword | 6 |
The languages of India 18 the Iranian group | 23 |
Armenian | 44 |
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Albanian alphabet American ancient Arabic arrived Balkans Baltic Baltic languages Basque became began borrowed Britain British Bulgarian Castilian Catalan Celtic Celts Church colony common culture Cyrillic Cyrillic alphabet Czech Danish descended dialects Dutch East eastern eighteenth century Empire England English Europe European languages France French Frisian Gaelic Germanic languages Greece Greek gypsies High German homeland Hungarian Icelandic India Indo-European influence Iranian Irish island Italian Italy lands Latvian linguistic literary Lithuanian live Low German Macedonian medieval million modern neighbours nineteenth century ninth century Norse Norsemen northern official language Old Church Slavonic origin Poland Polish political population Portuguese Provençal region Republic Roman Romance languages Romanian Romansch Rome Russian Sanskrit Saxon Scandinavian Scottish Gaelic Semitic Slavonic languages Slavs southern Spain Spanish speak speakers speech spoken survived tongue tribes Turkish Ukrainian vocabulary Vulgar Latin Welsh western words written