Language Family Tree

Language Family Tree

Language Family Tree William Jones (1700’s): Jakob Grimm (1800’s): backwards reconstruction: deep reconstruction:

Language Family Tree William Jones (1700’s) Latin, Greek and Sanskrit similarities Jakob Grimm (1800’s) sound shifts prove relationships between languages (backwards reconstruction)

Language Family Tree Proto-Indo-European Latin Ancient Greek Sanskrit Dravidian Afro-Asiatic Uralic-Altaic Kartvelian Proto-Indo-European Nostratic - superfamily or macrofamily no names for domesticated animals Last glacial period

Using the map above, generalize where the following language families are located: Indo-European: Sino-Tibetan: Dravidian: Altaic: Afro-Asiatic: Niger-Congo:

Diffusion of Indo-European Language Family Hypothesis #1 Proto-Indo-European Hearth

Diffusion of Indo-European Language Family Hypothesis #2

Diffusion of Indo-European Language Family Hypothesis #3

Diffusion of Indo-European Language Family Hypothesis #4