Proto Indo-European

So I haven't been blogging for ages. But really, these 'ages' weren't so much of a waste. I found out about a very interesting thing called Proto-Indo-European. Now, Wikipedia might be better at this job, but I am more brief.
So long long ago, like 6000 years ago i.e. 4000 B.C., there was these people called Indo-European people. These people most probably (and I believe so) lived in the area around the Caspian Sea in the souther part of Russia. Balgangadhar Tilak, after examining the Zend Avesta and Rig Veda suggested that these people moved south from the Arctic region during the Ice Age, as the books indicate. So these people spoke a language, or rather a dialect continuum- a group of closely related dialects, not much unlike all the dialects spoken in the North India, out of which Hindi or Khari Boli emerged as the most dominant in that region. Note that there are absolutely no records of Indo-European. It is constructed by noticing the similarities between Indo-European languages.
As people migrated, they came under the influence of many people and the languages changed a bit. Languages borrowed from languages of other non-Indo-European origin and languages changed a bit. Many other things happened, and languages changed a bit until they looked completely different. However, they still bear those similarities quite evident for us to see.
So some of the daughter branches of Proto-Indo-European(or PIE)
Germanic (with its branches, West, North, and East Germanic) which include few of the most spoken languages: English, German, Dutch. Ancestors to all Germanic languages is lost like PIE and therefore is named Proto-Germanic. Another daughter language family is Romantic languages (which is actually a sub-branch of Italic language- a branch of IE) , which, I believe contains the most lovely languages of the world including French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese e.t.c. Proto-Romantic, though dead is recorded and it is more commonly known as Latin. Greek family has lesser languages. It includes all the varieties of Greek, Ancient Greek being mother of all of them.
Another branch is the Indo-Iranian, which split up into Iranian, which includes languages of Iran like Persian, Avestan (the language in which the Avesta is written); and Indo-Aryan, which consists of all the languages of North India. South Indian languages are from a different family called Dravidian languages. Both these language families have been in contact for about 3000 years and have heavily influenced each other. Vedic Sanskrit may be rightly called Proto-Indo-Aryan, though only early Aryan texts like Rig Veda record it. Vedic Sanskrit preserves many archaic features of Proto-Indo-European, which were lost in Classical Sanskrit, which were further lost in Middle-Indo-Aryan ( which includes Prakrit and Pali). I believe, modern Indo-Aryan languages don't preserve half the beauty of these ancient languages.
So I will end here, even though I wish to write more because I can't wait to pour out all I have learnt. I will conclude by saying that isn't it ironic that English, Persian separated from our (Indian) languages, only to mingle again and perhaps they themselves will produce something altogether new.
Next post on some changes undergone by Germanic languages, the Satem and Centum language, Decem and Taihun languages and other different changes.

On a different note, I have been in class 9 for a month (2, if you count summer vacations) and its taking a little time for me to adjust.

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