Indo-Europeans: Satem vs Centum

[black hole]

What's yours?




dark blue: centum
dark green: satem


Centum

Germanic
Italic
Celtic
Hellenic



Satem

Slavic
Baltic
Armenian
Albanian
Iranic
Indic

[Pahli]

Satem over everything

[Kamal900]

Neither. I'm an Afro-Asiatic Semite.

[Dandelion]

Funny how Romance languages swapped the Latin 'k' for an 's', but they're Centum alright. Except for Sardinian which still has traces of the 'k'-phoneme.

[LoLeL]

If your poll is about our native languages, then mine's centum. If it's a war between centum and satem languages, then I choose centum again. However, I prefer a satem language to Dutch.

[Dandelion]

If your poll is about our native languages, then mine's centum. If it's a war between centum and satem languages, then I choose centum again. However, I prefer a satem language to Dutch.

The ugly Dutchling might grow up to become a beautiful swan.

[black hole]

Centum:

Germans
English
Dutch
Swedes
Norwegians
Danes
Frisians
Scots
Irish
Welsh
Bretons
French
Spaniards
Catalans
Portuguese
Italians
Sardinians
Romanians
Greeks





Satem:

Russians
Belarusians
Ukrainians
Lithuanians
Latvians
Poles
Czech
Slovaks
Serbo-Croatians
Slovenes
Bulgarians
Albanians
Armenians
Kurds
Persians
Pashtuns
Ossetians
Baloch
Punjabi
Gujarati
Hindi
Bengali
Rajasthani
Marathi

[Myanthropologies]

By nationality, I'm centum, by ethnicity I'm satem

[Shah-Jehan]

Satem-Centum classification is considered updated by a variety of linguists these days btw.

[Root]

Satem, because of culturally, historically, linguistically and geographically reasons..