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  1. The Nuristani languages, also known as Kafiri languages, are one of the three groups within the Indo-Iranian language family, alongside the much larger Indo-Aryan and Iranian groups. [1] [2] [3] They have approximately 130,000 speakers primarily in eastern Afghanistan and a few adjacent valleys in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 's Chitral District, Pakistan.

  2. When viewed purely logically and considering genetic studies as the primary, unadulterated source of information, the conclusion inevitably arises that the origins of the Indo-European languages can most likely be traced back to the Corded Ware culture, which in turn emerged from the Yamnaya culture .

  3. (All but Indo-Iranian and Tocharian) When a long vowel is followed by a sonorant and another consonant in the same syllable, it is shortened. Pinault's law Laryngeals are dropped before consonantal *y. Ruki sound law (Balto-Slavic, Albanian, Armenian, Indo-Iranian) *s is retracted

  4. 1997. The Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture ( EIEC) is an encyclopedia of Indo-European studies and the Proto-Indo-Europeans. The encyclopedia was edited by J. P. Mallory and Douglas Q. Adams and published in 1997 by Fitzroy Dearborn. Archaeological articles are written by Mallory, linguistic articles are written by Adams, and include a ...

  5. The Paleo-European languages, or Old European languages, are the mostly unknown languages that were spoken in Europe prior to the spread of the Indo-European and Uralic families caused by the Bronze Age invasion from the Eurasian steppe of pastoralists whose descendant languages dominate the continent today. [1] [2] Today, the vast majority of ...

  6. Proto-Indo-Europeans. The Proto-Indo-Europeans are a hypothetical prehistoric ethnolinguistic group of Eurasia who spoke Proto-Indo-European (PIE), the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family . Knowledge of them comes chiefly from that linguistic reconstruction, along with material evidence from archaeology and ...

  7. Proto-Indo-European would thus not have, as is usually reconstructed, a system of free accent such as is found in Vedic, but instead every morpheme would be inherently dominant or recessive, and the position of the accent would be later determined in various ways in the various daughter languages (depending on the combinations of (+) and (−) morphemes), so that Vedic would certainly not be ...