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Introduction to Comparative Indo-European Linguistics
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.
The Indo-European language family is now known to consist of thirteen major branches and a number of now extinct languages of which only fragments have been preserved that may once have formed branches of their own.
You’ll delve into the structure and origins of these branches. Not only will you learn about the oldest languages belonging to the Indo-European language family, but you’ll also learn about linguistic reconstruction, how you can tell whether two languages are related to each other and how language changes.
This course will guide you through the different groups of Indo-European languages. You’ll look at some of the oldest texts from these languages, including Ancient Greek and Sanskrit, and learn about the importance of oral traditions in the history of these texts.
As you progress through each of the branches of the language tree, you’ll begin to piece together the Proto-Indo-European language bit by bit by comparing and contrasting each different language in the tree.
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Length | 9 weeks |
Effort | 4 hours per week |
Starts | Jul 10 (43 weeks ago) |
Cost | $49 |
From | Universiteit Leiden via Coursera |
Instructor | Tijmen Pronk |
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Language | English |
Subjects | Humanities Art & Design Languages |
Tags | History Arts And Humanities Language Learning Other Languages |
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Rating | Not enough ratings |
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Length | 9 weeks |
Effort | 4 hours per week |
Starts | Jul 10 (43 weeks ago) |
Cost | $49 |
From | Universiteit Leiden via Coursera |
Instructor | Tijmen Pronk |
Download Videos | On all desktop and mobile devices |
Language | English |
Subjects | Humanities Art & Design Languages |
Tags | History Arts And Humanities Language Learning Other Languages |
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