Human language family map

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[Dombra]

Turkic and Mongolian as separate?

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History of the English Language

The figure below shows the timeline of the history of the English language. The earliest known residents of the British Isles were the Celts, who spoke Celtic languages—a separate branch of the Indo-European language family tree. Over the centuries the British Isles were invaded and conquered by various peoples, who brought their languages and customs with them as they settled in their new lives. There is now very little Celtic influence left in English. The earliest time when we can say that English was spoken was in the 5th century CE (Common Era—a politically correct term used to replace AD).

In case you hadn’t made the connection, “England” ← “Engla Land” ← “Angle Land” (Land of the Angles, a people of northern old Germany). Their name lives on in the district of England named East Anglia, and also in the Anglican Church. In the present day there is still a region of Germany known as Angeln, which is likely the same area from which the original Angles came. Angeln lies in Schleswig-Holstein on the eastern side of the Jutland peninsula near the cities of Flensburg and Schleswig.

[GrebluBro]

Blue or red => who's more Indian?

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Areas of the World Where Indo-European Languages Are Spoken

This world map shows the approximate distribution of Indo-European languages around the world. Within the red borders, the IE languages are the predominant or official languages. In addition to the nations within the red borders, most of the African nations have an Indo-European language (chiefly English or French) as a second official language. The map is only an approximation, but it gives you a good idea of where IE languages are spoken on the Earth. There are, of course other languages spoken within the IE area, such as American Indian languages, Basque, Hawaiian, the Australian aboriginal languages, and many others. Also note (hard to see on the map) that there is a red border around Hungary which excludes that nation. Hungarian is not an IE language, although it is completely surrounded by IE-speaking nations. The same applies to Finland and Estonia.

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The Spread of Indo-European Languages

This map presupposes an Armenian homeland of the Indo European people and is taken from The Early History of the Indo-European Languages by Thomas V. Gamkrelidze and V. V. Ivanov (Scientific American, March 1990:110):



A colourful tree of the Indo-European languages is part of the program Exploration of Language developed by Richard Effland, Shereen Lerner, Stephen Parkins and David Turkon:



A very helpful characterisation of the Germanic language family was published by a team of scholars at the Nederlandistik Wien:

[Longbowman]

The Spread of Indo-European Languages

This map presupposes an Armenian homeland of the Indo European people and is taken from The Early History of the Indo-European Languages by Thomas V. Gamkrelidze and V. V. Ivanov (Scientific American, March 1990:110):

Almost certainly wrong, I'm afraid.

[Kiyant]

What about Altaic (Turkic/Mongolic/Tungusic and additionaly Japonic and Koreanic)?

[Longbowman]

What about Altaic (Turkic/Mongolic/Tungusic and additionaly Japonic and Koreanic)?

Altaic is a hypothesised language group. It has not been demonstrated to actually exist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaic_languages

Similarly you could include the Indo-European and Finno-Ugric groups as one, and the Na-Dene-Yenesian group, (that last one has almost been conclusively demonstrated to be true) but it's not proven.