Indo-Eurpoean Languages
The English language is only one of more than three thousand languages in use in the world. It is related to about ahudnred of these, which together constitute the Indo-European (IE) family, on eof the largest and most widely distributed of the worlds's language families. Some of the languages of the IE family mau seem to have little resemblance to one another, many are written in aplhabets different from English. Yet all are descendants of a ancestral single language now lost.
Indo-European Language Chart
to be updated later
(The Random House College Dictionary 1980)
Comaprison of a few words
English Latin Sanskrit Greek Old-Norse
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ample amplus, ampla amatra
angel angelus angiras angelos
anger angor amhas anchein öngr
angle angulus anga, anka angos ökkla
annual annuus atati
ante- ante anti anti and-
anthology anthologia andha anthos
arctic arcticus rksa (L ursus) arktikos
argent argentum rajata argyros
arm armus irma harmos armr
arsenic arsenicum hiranya arsenikon
article art rta artyein
aryan aryan
axis axia aksa axon öxull
babble babulus balbala,barbarabarbaros babba
bald fulica bhala phalios bal
band bandha band
bear ferre bharati pherein bera
beaver fiber babhru björr
belly upa-barhana belgr
bind badhnati binda
blend bradhna blanda
blow flare bhanda phallos
mace mateola matya
mad methati meitha
man manu mathr
mix mixtus misra misgein
mouse mus mus mys mus
move movere mivati
much magnus mahat megas mikill
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One can find many more words. The above all documented and taken
from Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Encyclopædia
Britannica, Inc Chicago 1986.