contentbot@lemmy.caB to Cool Guides@lemmy.caEnglish · 11 months agoA cool guide for old world language family treei.redd.itimagemessage-square6linkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1imageA cool guide for old world language family treei.redd.itcontentbot@lemmy.caB to Cool Guides@lemmy.caEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square6linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareEvilCartyen@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoThese are indo-european languages, I am sure you could do one for sino-tibetan if you feel like it.
minus-squareReshyurem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoThen where’s Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. Thought I’d see it around Sinhalese but they’re missing. No south india representation :(
minus-squaredeus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoThey’re not missing, they just belong to an entirely different family. These are Dravidian languages, not Indo-European.
minus-squareSerpent@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoFascinating, and what about Basque?
minus-squareSaeveo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·11 months agoBasque is a language isolate and is thought to be unrelated to the Indo-European languages in this graphic.
These are indo-european languages, I am sure you could do one for sino-tibetan if you feel like it.
Then where’s Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. Thought I’d see it around Sinhalese but they’re missing. No south india representation :(
They’re not missing, they just belong to an entirely different family. These are Dravidian languages, not Indo-European.
Fascinating, and what about Basque?
Basque is a language isolate and is thought to be unrelated to the Indo-European languages in this graphic.