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Most of the Languages of Europe and India, such as English French italian, Hindi, Bengali, etc.

Notable exceptions are Basque and Hungarian.

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What kind of language is Gaelic?

It belongs to the Celtic subdivision of Indoeuropean languages. It includes Irish, Scottish and Manx Gaelic, all separate languages. Welsh, Breton and Cornish belong to the other branch of Celtic.


Is it true that Scientists have traced the English language to the parent language IndoEuropean?

Yes, linguists have traced the English language back to its roots in the Proto-Indo-European language, which is believed to have been spoken around 4500 BC. English is part of the Indo-European language family, which also includes languages like Spanish, French, and Hindi.


Are Semitic languages part of the Indo-European language family?

No, Semitic languages are not part of the Indo-European language family. Semitic languages belong to a separate language family that includes languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Amharic.


What is unusual about the khoisan language family?

One of the most distinguishing features of the Khosian language family is that it's languages make use of 'click consonant' for the letters c, q, and x. These 'clicks' can only be heard in these languages along with the bantu language family (of which Xhosa, the native language of Nelson Mandela, is included)


When and where did kannada language originate?

Research done in India is generally very inaccurate. It is true in any developing world. All the Indian languages have their origin in Sanskrit, a IndoEuropean language. Kannada is a more complete and classical language unlike Tamil which lacks even basic letters like 'ha' in its alphabet. Telugu script has its origin in Kannada. So do Konkani and Tulu languages.

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Is the English language a bastard language?

If you mean bastard, as in fatherless; then no... it is in the family language of the germanic - indoeuropean - japhetic trace of languages from the tower of babel. But it is becoming a "bastard" language in the sense that surely a great number of more than half of the people who speak it speak it as a second language, mainly pressured by business, colonization and cultural pressure.


What kind of language is Gaelic?

It belongs to the Celtic subdivision of Indoeuropean languages. It includes Irish, Scottish and Manx Gaelic, all separate languages. Welsh, Breton and Cornish belong to the other branch of Celtic.


Is it true that Scientists have traced the English language to the parent language IndoEuropean?

Yes, linguists have traced the English language back to its roots in the Proto-Indo-European language, which is believed to have been spoken around 4500 BC. English is part of the Indo-European language family, which also includes languages like Spanish, French, and Hindi.


Are Semitic languages part of the Indo-European language family?

No, Semitic languages are not part of the Indo-European language family. Semitic languages belong to a separate language family that includes languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Amharic.


What is the second-largest language family?

The Italic family, which includes Latin, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, Occitan, Galician, Ladino, Romansch, and several others.


What the Linguists have organized the world's languages into?

Languages are organsed into families. Languages in a family are related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that family.


Which language family do most European languages belong to?

Most European languages belong to the Indo-European language family.


What is unusual about the khoisan language family?

One of the most distinguishing features of the Khosian language family is that it's languages make use of 'click consonant' for the letters c, q, and x. These 'clicks' can only be heard in these languages along with the bantu language family (of which Xhosa, the native language of Nelson Mandela, is included)


When and where did kannada language originate?

Research done in India is generally very inaccurate. It is true in any developing world. All the Indian languages have their origin in Sanskrit, a IndoEuropean language. Kannada is a more complete and classical language unlike Tamil which lacks even basic letters like 'ha' in its alphabet. Telugu script has its origin in Kannada. So do Konkani and Tulu languages.


Is the Uralic language family related to the Indo-European language family?

Yes, the Uralic language family, which includes languages like Finnish and Hungarian, is not directly related to the Indo-European language family, which includes languages like English and Spanish.


What family does the English language belong?

It belongs to the Indo-European family of languages.


What is the most spoken language in the Bantu family of languages?

The most spoken language of the bantu family of languages spoken in Africa is...UMBUNDU