Indoeuropäische Sprachen

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There are about 445 living Indo-European (IE) languages, with Spanish, English, Portuguese, Bengali, Hindi, Russian, Punjabi, German, French and Marathi being the ten Indo-European languages with the most native speakers in descending order. [Links nur für registrierte Nutzer]

It is thought that Proto-Indo-European may have been spoken as a single language (before divergence began) around 3500 BC, though estimates vary by more than a thousand years.


Zur Herkunft gibt es verschiedene Theorien: Jurgan, Anatolien, Armenien, europ. Altsteinzeit u.a.

The Kurgan hypothesis (also known as the Kurgan theory or Kurgan model) is the most widely accepted proposal to identify the Proto-Indo-European homelands from which spread of the Indo-European languages occurred.[note 1] It postulates that the people of a Kurgan culture in the Pontic steppe north of the Black Sea were the most likely speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE).
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The Anatolian hypothesis proposes that the dispersal of Proto-Indo-Europeans originated in Neolithic Anatolia.
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The Armenian hypothesis of the Proto-Indo-European Urheimat [...] suggests that the Proto-Indo-European language was spoken during the 4th millennium BC in the Armenian Highlands.
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The Paleolithic Continuity Theory [...] is a hypothesis suggesting that the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) can be traced back to the Upper Paleolithic, several millennia earlier than the Chalcolithic or at the most Neolithic estimates in other scenarios of Proto-Indo-European origins.
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