Indo-European Language Tree
232 sats \ 4 comments \ @oliverweiss 13 May charts_and_numbers
https://m.stacker.news/30777
64 living Indo-European languages (around the outside), as well as many dead and extinct languages.
Moving into the image from the outside, we travel back in time, until we reach the core of the image, wherein lies Proto-Indo-European. Experts suppose that PIE was spoken somewhere around the border of Europe and Asia and diverged into the 10 inner Proto languages shown here 4500+ years ago (or maybe more).
There are about 380 Indo-European languages missing from this image. The Indo-Iranian branch is the largest, actually accounting for around two-thirds of Indo-European languages.
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17 sats \ 2 replies \ @MarsIronPI 13 May freebie
Also check out this amazing language tree by Minna Sundberg:
It's from her comic, Stand Still, Stay Silent.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @oliverweiss OP 13 May
Really nice!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @MarsIronPI 13 May
I agree. To be clear though, I definitely am not the artist, I just really like her work.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @fake123 14 May
Where does Emeg̃ir (Sumerian) fall in all this? Having just read "The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross," I was lead to believe most languages inherited from sumerian!
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