The source of Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit

[@panzerofthelake506]

Its so insane that Indian languages and slavic languages are related so closely

[@jbatts834]

They aren’t related so closely lol, they’re more related to Baltic languages like Estonian and even then it’s not that close.

[@TågaPåg]

@@jbatts834 Estonian is a Uralic language, not an Indo-European one. The Baltic component in Balto-Slavic refers to Latvian and Lithuanian.

[@praneethmashetty591]

I wouldn't say there's anything extraordinarily similar between the Slavic and Indo-Aryan languages. There will obviously be similarities considering that they come from PIE, and the fact that they're both Satem as opposed to Centum in the west.

[@jbatts834]

@@TågaPåg ya my bad I picked the one Baltic language that isn’t indo-European lol

[@The_Rejekt]

What's with the Laos flag?

[@nardi4613]

Idk I don't control the random emojis lol

[@MlgXp]

I can't believe Albanian is that close to German lol

[@the_linguist_ll]

@@MlgXp That’s an old tree, it’s really closer to Greek than the Germanic languages. Specifically the Hellenic-Phrygean and Armenic branches are its closest relatives

[@jbatts834]

It’s not

[@the_linguist_ll]

inb4 the sanskritters get here

[@praneethmashetty591]

Sanskrit is actually the mother of all languages. Sanskrit was spoken by the first people on this planet which was given to us by an ancient race of aliens who were extremely advanced. People spoke Sanskrit in ancient Egypt and ancient Mesoamerica. Sanskrit is a perfected language with absolutely no irregularities whatsoever. It is a perfect programming language. Everyone should forget their mother tongue and speak Sanskrit.

[@Hackerisitic]

Not even sanskritters say the last part. Projecting much, brother?

[@brookelord3448]

​@praneethmashetty591 it's not related to Asian or Uralic languages, nor is it related to Turkish, any native African or Polynesian languages. nor is it the oldest language. It's the oldest written language that wasn't pictographs. Egyptian hieroglyphs are at least 1,000 years older than Sanskrit.

[@the_linguist_ll]

@@Hackerisitic They do though

[@SapphireScroll]

​@@praneethmashetty591I hope you get better soon

[@Love78787]

If Balto-Slavic and Armeno-greek split from each other that means Ancient Macedonian is the direct ancestor language of the contemporary Macedonian language for all Slavic languages are based only upon the Macedonian language: ''Church Slavonic language, Slavic language based primarily on the Macedonian (South Slavic) dialects around Thessalonica (Thessaloníki). It was used in the 9th century by the missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius, who were natives of Thessalonica, for preaching to the Moravian Slavs and for translating the Bible'' - Britannica.

[@neevee_gd]

why the lao flag

[@jan_Wilo]

Whats with tbe large dotted line?

[@jorgegordillo791]

inb4 monolith

[@sk3tchinatortv]

Sir William Jones is my ancestor, proud to be a Jones. Heb Dhuw Heb Ddym, Dhuw a Digon

[@lurji]

i want to be pedantic so. greek and latin aren't sister since they don't share an immediate common ancestor that branched off into either.

[@IchorOfTheManndrake]

Didn't Jones also think that Japanese was an Indo-European language, but not Slavic?? 😭

[@f34rbeast32]

Are you on iTunes?

[@VilcxjoVakero]

All up in the macrobranches I see

[@endofscenarios]

There's no way that Latin is a Celtic language

[@nardi4613]

It's not!

[@endofscenarios]

​@@nardi4613But in the video there was a scheme that labled it as "italo-celtic". Besides, i know that Latin isn't a Celtic language, obviously. My surprise was in fact that.

[@snookers88]

No, but Proto-Indo-European split off into "Proto-Italo-Celtic" before then diverging into the various italian and celtic languages

[@pandaman2234]

​@endofscenariosItalic and Celtic languages are more closely realted to each other then other indo european languages, they come form a common ancestor people that split off form Proto indo european and then later split into Celts and Italians. This is why Celts and Italians were so close to each other geographically as well.

[@heatth1474]

@endofscenarios Latin is not a celtic language, but it is an italo-celtic language. Well, maybe, there is apparently debate on the subject, but it is not that weird is it? There is geographic and temporal proximity. Why it is weird to think that there was in the long past a language that split off into proto-celtic and proto-Italic?

[@corsaircaruso471]

Albano-Germanic?! That’s a thing?!

[@TheYolo20]

Its not. This seems to be outdated or who knows where he got it from but there used to be hypothesis about a shared sub branch of albanian and germanic which was later thrown out. The reason is some similarities in the grammar