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    INDO-HITTITE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    The family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asiaplay

    Synonyms:

    Indo-European; Indo-European language; Indo-Hittite

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("Indo-Hittite" is a kind of...):

    natural language; tongue (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Indo-Hittite"):

    PIE; Proto-Indo European (a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages)

    Albanian (the Indo-European language spoken by the people of Albania)

    Armenian; Armenian language (the Indo-European language spoken predominantly in Armenia, but also in Azerbaijan)

    Illyrian (a minor and almost extinct branch of the Indo-European languages; spoken along the Dalmatian coast)

    Thraco-Phrygian (an extinct branch of the Indo-European language family thought by some to be related to Armenian)

    Balto-Slavic; Balto-Slavic language; Balto-Slavonic (a family of Indo-European languages including the Slavic and Baltic languages)

    Germanic; Germanic language (a branch of the Indo-European family of languages; members that are spoken currently fall into two major groups: Scandinavian and West Germanic)

    Celtic; Celtic language (a branch of the Indo-European languages that (judging from inscriptions and place names) was spread widely over Europe in the pre-Christian era)

    Italic; Italic language (a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative)

    Tocharian (a branch of the Indo-European language family that originated in central Asia during the first millennium A.D.)

    Indo-Iranian; Indo-Iranian language (the branch of the Indo-European family of languages including the Indic and Iranian language groups)

    Anatolian; Anatolian language (an extinct branch of the Indo-European family of languages known from inscriptions and important in the reconstruction of Proto-Indo European)

    Greek; Hellenic; Hellenic language (the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages)

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