Build your knowledge of Indo-European languages, how they changed through time, and how to reconstruct ancient languages. Every language belongs to a language family; a group of languages that are genetically related to each other. Indo-European is the name of the language family to which English belongs, along with many sub-families such as Germanic languages and Romance languages.
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Introduction to Comparative Indo-European Linguistics
Universiteit LeidenAbout this Course
Everybody with a general interest in prehistoric and ancient Europe and Asia as well as comparative linguistics
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Investigate the evolution of words and sounds in Indo-European languages
Explain how Indo-European languages are related to each other
Discuss the interplay between linguistics, archaeology and genetics
Explore the oldest written sources of Indo-European languages
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
The Indo-European language family
Language Change
Greek and Sanskrit
Iranian and Armenian
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The course was well done and very engaging. There was a wealth of information, the presenters were great, and overall I found the topic fascinating.
Incredible. A first-class introduction to historical linguistics for Indo-European languages.
Wanted to know something about how Proto-Indo-European language was reconstructed for quite sometime already. And the course was just 100% hit! Thanks!
Very interesting course, with important information for general culture of a language teacher.
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