1. Language Family Tree

2. Language Family Tree

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

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

5. 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

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

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

8. Diffusion of Indo-European Language Family Hypothesis #2

9. Diffusion of Indo-European Language Family Hypothesis #3

10. Diffusion of Indo-European Language Family Hypothesis #4