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The family is also one of the largest language family in the world in terms of native speakers. Languages as different as English (365 million), Latin (few to none), Ancient Greek (few to none), Hindi-Urdu(361 million), Russian (162 million), Welsh (720,000), and Armenian (6 million) all belong to this gigantic, sprawling family. | The family is also one of the largest language family in the world in terms of native speakers. Languages as different as English (365 million), Latin (few to none), Ancient Greek (few to none), Hindi-Urdu(361 million), Russian (162 million), Welsh (720,000), and Armenian (6 million) all belong to this gigantic, sprawling family. | ||
[[File:Primary Human Language Families Map.png|thumbnail| | [[File:Primary Human Language Families Map.png|thumbnail|Distribution of the world's language families with Indo-European in cyan]] | ||
All in all, Indo-European languages offer the conlanger ample material from which to draw upon when engaging in lighthearted linguogenesis, what with detailed grammars, lexica, recordings, dissertations, and so on. Whether it be [[Aarlaansk]] (a descendant of Latin in northwestern Europe), [[Harākti]] (a sibling of Hittite), '''Gutiskar''' (Germanic), '''Syrunian''' (a Levantine descendant of Latin), '''Thorian''' (a close relative of the Greek family), '''Quadian''' (an 'old Germanic' language) or belonging to a whole new branch entirely as '''Alkalic''', '''Nṛtranya''' (a language drawn from a 'reconstructed PIE'-lexicon based on mostly Proto-Germanic words then taken down through Sanskrit-y sound changes) or [[Dhannuá]] (a melangemischung of Celtic, Italic, and Germanic elements), Indo-European-derived languages don't seem to be ceasing in popularity or creativity any time soon. | All in all, Indo-European languages offer the conlanger ample material from which to draw upon when engaging in lighthearted linguogenesis, what with detailed grammars, lexica, recordings, dissertations, and so on. Whether it be [[Aarlaansk]] (a descendant of Latin in northwestern Europe), [[Harākti]] (a sibling of Hittite), '''Gutiskar''' (Germanic), '''Syrunian''' (a Levantine descendant of Latin), '''Thorian''' (a close relative of the Greek family), '''Quadian''' (an 'old Germanic' language) or belonging to a whole new branch entirely as '''Alkalic''', '''Nṛtranya''' (a language drawn from a 'reconstructed PIE'-lexicon based on mostly Proto-Germanic words then taken down through Sanskrit-y sound changes) or [[Dhannuá]] (a melangemischung of Celtic, Italic, and Germanic elements), Indo-European-derived languages don't seem to be ceasing in popularity or creativity any time soon. | ||
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You have many options available in the treatment of the vowels and consonants; already in Proto-Indo-European we discern a trend towards either engaging in af/fricativisation or not of the 'palatovelars'. This important isogloss divides Indo-European into two broad swaths: Centum and Satem. Cf. | You have many options available in the treatment of the vowels and consonants; already in Proto-Indo-European we discern a trend towards either engaging in af/fricativisation or not of the 'palatovelars'. This important isogloss divides Indo-European into two broad swaths: Centum and Satem. Cf. reconstructed PIE [[wikt:Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/ḱm̥tóm#Proto-Indo-European|*(d)ḱm̥tóm]] and its descendants [[wikt:centum#Latin|centum (Latin)]] & [[wikt:शत#Sanskrit|śatá (Sanskrit)]]. | ||
===Melting morphology=== | ===Melting morphology=== | ||
While Proto-Indo-European is reconstructed as having a somewhat complex morphology both for nouns and verbs, almost all descendants strongly simplified the systems. | |||
===Smithing smooth sentences syntactically=== | ===Smithing smooth sentences syntactically=== | ||